Lawmakers Seek to Restore Antitrust Funding to Spending Bill
- Klobuchar, Grassley urge Congress to maintain merger fees
- Spending plan would limit funds Justice Department can access
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers are urging colleagues to reinstate funding to the Justice Department’s antitrust enforcers in the spending bill set to be considered by Congress this week.
In a letter on Tuesday to the top House and Senate negotiators on the budget package, the lawmakers expressed “strong opposition” to a provision that they said would divert some corporate filing fees for mergers collected by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission.