All-Night Antitrust Debate Moves Big Tech Bills Forward
- Marathon committee session pauses with one bill remaining
- Tech-focused bills would hit Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook
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The House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to prevent companies like Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google from favoring their own products, a measure that critics warned could complicate the use of Apple’s own apps on its iPhone or shopping on Amazon.
The legislation was the fifth bill out of six being taken up by the committee in a session that ran for nearly 20 hours into early Thursday morning, before breaking until later in the day. The measure, sponsored by antitrust subcommittee Chair David Cicilline, advanced on a narrowly bipartisan 24-20 vote.