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WASHINGTON A pair of powerful lawmakers who run the Senate’s antitrust panel on Monday told federal regulators reviewing Google’s $3.1 billion purchase of rival DoubleClick that they have grave concerns about the deal.
Although Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, stopped short of urging the Federal Trade Commission to scotch the deal, they told FTC chairman Deborah Platt Majoras that the deal could create a fearsome Internet conglomerate. Kohl chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, which oversees competition policy.
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