Washington, DC — The US Senate is back to work after the August recess, with two months until the midterm elections, and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he has just two legislative priorities between now and then.
One is the passage of a bipartisan measure called the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. Grassley says it aims to restore competition online by stopping giant digital platforms from giving unfair preferences to their own products and services.
Grassley, a Republican, is co-sponsoring the bill with Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar.
Grassley says those internet Goliaths have deep pockets and they’ve been waging an expensive, extensive campaign against the legislation.
Grassley says his second priority over the coming weeks is the passage of his Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act. It would force the nation’s largest beef packers to buy a percentage of their cattle through negotiated-type trades in order to level the playing field for smaller producers.
