App-Store Bill’s Sponsors Make Last-Ditch Bid to Get Senate Vote
- Measure takes aim at app store fees collected by Apple, Google
- Blackburn, Blumenthal seeking expedited vote in Senate
Marsha Blackburn
Photographer: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Bloomberg
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The co-sponsors of antitrust legislation targeting Apple Inc.’s and Google’s power over app stores are preparing a last-ditch — and likely doomed — effort to move the bill through Congress as they run out of options to advance it before lawmakers leave for the year.
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut are attempting to use a procedural move to expedite a vote on the Open App Markets Act over the next few days, according to five people familiar with the plans.