Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2025
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- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 14
- Latest action
- Jan 16, 2025
What it does
Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2025 This bill revises antitrust laws applicable to mergers and anticompetitive conduct. Specifically, the bill applies a stricter standard for permissible mergers by prohibiting mergers that (1) create an appreciable risk of materially lessening competition, or (2) create a monopsony (i.e., where a single buyer or employer has sufficient market power to lower the price of goods or wages due to a lack of competition) Additionally, for some large mergers or mergers that concentrate markets beyond a certain threshold, the bill shifts the burden of proof to the merging parties to prove that the merger does not violate the law. The bill…
Official summary · Introduced in Senate · Jan 16, 2025
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