Economic Liberties Lays Out a Roadmap for 118th Congress to Rein In Corporate Power
Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project today released a new policy agenda for antimonopoly advocates in the 118th Congress to rein in corporate power and shift our country to a fairer economy. The agenda includes a series of legislative ideas and policy proposals across sectors, recommendations for congressional investigations, and other tools for legislators looking to fight back against concentrated corporate power.
“Antimonopoly advocates in Congress have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rein in corporate power this session — our agenda lays out a roadmap to seize it,” said Morgan Harper, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project. “After watching corporate monopolies and Wall Street rake in record profits at their expense, working families, small businesses, and entrepreneurs are hungry for reforms that steer our country toward a fairer future and check the undue influence that corporations hold over their lives and our democracy. The agenda recommends robust congressional action across Big Tech, agriculture, healthcare, industrial policy and more, to continue this important fight for all Americans.”
The policy agenda includes previously introduced pieces of legislation, new legislative ideas, potential investigations of key sectors or companies, and recommendations for congressional oversight to pressure the executive branch to take action. The policy road map is organized into three sections: (1) sector-by-sector policy proposals, (2) cross-cutting policies, like antitrust, that touch the entire economy, and (3) recommendations for congressional investigations.
Sectoral policy recommendations touch on industries across the economy, including:
- Agriculture
- Big Tech
- Healthcare
- Industrial Policies & Economic Resilience
- Transportation
- Utilities
Read the policy agenda in full here.
Learn more about Economic Liberties here.
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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.