Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, Raimundo praised the efforts of Senator Amy Klobuchar and Representative David Cislin to endorse the American Online Innovation and Choice Act (AICOA), a bill that would prevent tech platforms from unfairly favoring private proprietary services over their platforms. over those competing companies.

“[I] “We clearly agree that we need to improve competition, which increases innovation,” Raimundo said. [Justice Department] Issued a letter of opinions on behalf of management to support [AICOA] The Chamber and I certainly support that and agree with the objective of the legislation and the views expressed in this letter of opinions.”

Antitrust officials at the Department of Justice are currently suing Google for allegedly abusing its dominance in the search and search advertising markets. At the time of sending the letter, policy analysts said the Justice Department memo increases the odds of AICOA being passed.