The chairman of a US Senate antitrust panel will look into the release of a confidential Federal Trade Commission report on an investigation of Google Inc.‘s search business, which was closed in 2013 without an enforcement action.
Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican who leads the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, also wants information about any conversations the agency or Google had with members of the Obama administration at the time, Emily Long, a spokeswoman for the senator, said in an email.
“We are not likely at this time to re-examine the underlying merits of the investigation, which was closed,” Long said. “Our interest is in oversight.”
The senator doesn’t plan to ask the FTC to reopen the investigation absent any new evidence, according to the person. A hearing isn’t planned at this point.
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