Washington, D.C. — Policy experts from the American Economic Liberties Project will testify in favor of two antimonopoly bills before the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Commerce Committee today, urging lawmakers to support legislation designed to address abusive and anticompetitive behavior by dominant corporations. 

Pat Garofalo, Economic Liberties’ Director of State and Local Policy, will testify in favor of HF4144, a bill that will reinvigorate Minnesota’s antitrust laws and empower antitrust enforcers to better protect Minnesota workers and local businesses. Shahid Naeem, a Policy Analyst at Economic Liberties, will encourage lawmakers to pass HF1184, legislation designed to rein in Apple and Google’s power over app store markets. Minnesota lawmakers will also consider HF4142 and HF4143, two additional pieces of important antimonopoly legislation.

“We’re thrilled to see Minnesota lawmakers consider this suite of antimonopoly legislation that is critical for protecting communities, local businesses, workers, and consumers from the abuses of corporate power.” said Pat Garofalo, Director of State and Local Policy at the American Economic Liberties Project. “It’s clear that lawmakers across the country are waking up to the harms of dominant corporations and are taking action. We’re excited to support this legislation in Minnesota and similar efforts across the U.S.”

For more information about why state across the country should pass legislation like HF4144 and HF1184, see“Tools for Taking on Big Tech’s Economic Power: A Guide for State Lawmakers.”

Read Naeem’s testimony here and Garofalo’s testimony 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.