I'm Just a Bill: Antitrust Merger Review Reform
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Antitrust Merger Review Reform A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Antitrust reform legislation in the 119th Congress modernizing the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act merger-review process and updating the agencies’ authority to challenge anti-competitive mergers. What does it actually do? HSR thresholds — adjusts pre-merger notification thresholds Healthcare-PE rollups — specific provisions addressing private-equity rollups in healthcare (composing with Stop Wall Street Looting Act) Labor markets — strengthens FTC/DOJ authority to challenge mergers reducing wage competition Vertical mergers — clarifies authority to challenge anti-competitive vertical integration Enforcement budgets — funds expanded FTC + DOJ Antitrust Division capacity Who votes when? House Judiciary + Senate Judiciary active consideration How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #2 Lets Get Groceries (anti-monopoly architecture is Initiative #2’s explicit thesis), #3 Lets Go Shopping (cooperative marketplace as structural alternative to consolidated platform-capitalism), and the cooperative compact’s broader structural-anti-extraction commitment. ...