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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ANTITRUST CRIMINAL PENALTY ENHANCEMENT AND REFORM PERMANENT EXTENSION
ACT
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Committee on the Judiciary be discharged and the Senate proceed to the
immediate consideration of S. 3377.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the bill by title.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 3377) to amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty
Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to repeal the sunset
provision.
There being no objection, the committee was discharged and the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill
be considered read a third time.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read
the third time.
Mr. McCONNELL. I know of no further debate on the bill.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
There being no further debate, the bill having been read the third
time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
The bill (S. 3377) was passed, as follows
S. 3377
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Antitrust Criminal Penalty
Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act''.
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Conspiracies among competitors to fix prices, rig bids,
and allocate markets are categorically and irredeemably
anticompetitive and contravene the competition policy of the
United States.
(2) Cooperation incentives are important to the efforts of
the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice to
prosecute and deter the offenses described in paragraph (1).
(b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act, and the amendments
made by this Act, is to strengthen public and private
antitrust enforcement by providing incentives for antitrust
violators to cooperate fully with government prosecutors and
private litigants through the repeal of the sunset provision
of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act
of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note).
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF SUNSET PROVISION.
(a) In General.--Section 211 of the Antitrust Criminal
Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note)
is repealed.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 212 of
the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of
2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note) is amended--
(1) by striking paragraph (6); and
(2) by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (6).
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion
to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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