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This bill has unprecedented support from all corners of Congress and for good reason: It ensures that the same privacy protections that apply to documents stored in our homes extend to our emails, photos, and information stored in the cloud. These critical updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act will bring that law into the 21st century. The broad, bipartisan coalition that cuts across industry, civil society, and academia deserves credit for their members’ tireless work to move this bill.

WASHINGTON—Senators Lee and Klobuchar, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights today issued the following statements on the Department of Justice’s determination that Canadian Pacific’s proposed voting trust “risks irreversible harm” to competition.

WASHINGTON—Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on April 5th at 2:15p.m., in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, entitled "Section 5 and 'Unfair Methods of Competition': Protecting Competition or Increasing Uncertainty?" The witnesses testifying at the hearing will be former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright, Stanford Law professor Doug Melamed, Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, and Latham & Watkins partner Amanda Reeves.

"My heart goes out to all those who were killed and injured in this morning’s horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels. An attack like this is an attack on all of western civilization, a truth highlighted by the fact that three missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were injured in the blasts. My prayers are with the victims, their families, and everyone touched by this tragedy."