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Rep. Lou Correa, D-CA, questions witnesses during an impeachment enquiry proceeding earlier the House Judiciary Committee connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2019.
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Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., who opposed a package of bills seeking to betterment antitrust instrumentality to rein successful Big Tech companies, volition go the apical Democrat connected the House Judiciary subcommittee connected antitrust, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday.
CNBC archetypal reported that Correa was the apical contender for the role, contempt his voting grounds connected antitrust deviating from that of his predecessor. Former Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., who stepped down from Congress earlier this period to pb a philanthropic group, antecedently led the subcommittee with an accent connected cracking down connected what helium viewed arsenic integer monopolies.
Correa's elevation to the apical Democratic spot connected the subcommittee marks a apt alteration successful tone. That displacement was already acceptable successful question connected the Republican side, erstwhile the apical champion of the tech betterment bills, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., was passed implicit for the chairmanship successful favour of Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. Buck had antecedently served arsenic the apical Republican connected the subcommittee.
While Correa's caller relation apt won't effect successful contiguous changes fixed that Republicans power the House and the quality to acceptable committee agendas, immoderate opponents fearfulness his ascension could marque it harder to regenerate him should Democrats instrumentality backmost the House successful the adjacent election.
When helium was chair, Cicilline spearheaded an probe into Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook which recovered the 4 maintained monopoly power. It resulted successful a bundle of bills to bounds their powerfulness that passed done the subcommittee nether Cicilline's stewardship. But Correa and different California lawmakers connected the subcommittee voted against the bills.
Correa gained the enactment of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for the position, Punchbowl News reported past week, noting, "Only 2 Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus presently service connected the Judiciary Committee, adjacent though galore of the issues that it covers disproportionately interaction Latino communities. Elevating Congressman Correa to Ranking Member would assistance guarantee that the voices of the largest taste number successful the state would beryllium good represented connected immoderate of the issues that substance astir to them."
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