119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Jan 16, 2025
Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2025
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Latest action (Jan 16, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Jan 16, 2025)
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 also prohibits exclusionary conduct that presents an appreciable risk of harming competition.
No predispute arbitration agreements or predispute joint-action waivers are valid or enforceable with respect to an antitrust dispute.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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AMAZON · lobbying firm or registrant: BLOOM STRATEGIC COUNSEL
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 1, 2026 · issue area: Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
$50,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to competition in technology issues; S. 130, Competition and Antitrust Law Reform Act; S. 4746, American Innovation and Choice Online Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMAZON · lobbying firm or registrant: BLOOM STRATEGIC COUNSEL
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 1, 2026 · issue area: Computer Industry
$50,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to competition in technology issues; S. 130, Competition and Antitrust Law Reform Act; S. 4746, American Innovation and Choice Online Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMAZON · lobbying firm or registrant: BLOOM STRATEGIC COUNSEL
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 6, 2026 · issue area: Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
$50,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to competition in technology issues; S. 130, Competition and Antitrust Law Reform Act; S. 4746, American Innovation and Choice Online Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMAZON · lobbying firm or registrant: BLOOM STRATEGIC COUNSEL
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 6, 2026 · issue area: Computer Industry
$50,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to competition in technology issues; S. 130, Competition and Antitrust Law Reform Act; S. 4746, American Innovation and Choice Online Act
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing