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LINA KHAN MAJORITY COUNSEL, U.S. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ANTITRUST, COMMERCIAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Policyu Positions and Areas of Focus Opposes Corporate Consolidation – Draws Leading voice in national discussion about e- corollary between consolidation and inequality commerce antitrust action and breaking up • Uses chicken farmers as example of how tech companies corporate consolidation is harmful; points to consolidation reducing number of processing Antitrust Law Reform – Cited Amazon to companies where farmers can sell, limiting illustrate weakness of current laws their bargaining power • Believes current antitrust law is unequipped to protect competition in the modern economy, Core Communities specifically because it examines antitrust Close with economic policy professionals, through a consumer price perspective legal scholars, and Democratic politicians • Criticizes Amazon’s e-commerce dominance; argues its anticompetitive behavior, like setting Open Markets Institute – Where she first prices at such low levels that competitors are discovered interest in antitrust forced to leave market, skirt antitrust scrutiny • Credits interest in antitrust as being prompted • Broadly views companies like Amazon as by OMI Director Barry Lynn enabling inequality by pushing smaller • Has co-written articles with OMI Legal Director businesses out of the market Sandeep Vaheesan • Worked alongside Policy Director Phil Breaking Up Large Tech Companies – One of Longman, who she worked with on articles the original proponents about consolidation • Cites government using its power to break up • Has co-written articles with ; railroad, oil, and telephone monopolies as served as her Policy Advisor in 2014 New precedent for doing the same to companies York gubernatorial campaign like Amazon and Facebook • Cites Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and Antitrust Scholars – Often collaborates with WhatsApp as an example of lessened legal scholars with similar views competition in privacy and believes breaking • Works closely with colleague Tim Wu on up tech companies would lead to more antitrust scholarship, who has referred to the competition strengthening privacy duo as the Wu-Khan Clan • Co-authoring academic article with Columbia Reforming the Law Professor David E. Pozen on information (FTC) – Believes agency is ill-equipped to fiduciaries regulate in modern economy • Views FTC’s current approach to competition Democratic politicians – Innovative antitrust policy as advancing goal of economic ideas have captured the attention of lawmakers efficiency rather than policing consolidation • Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), Chair of the • Argues FTC should block anti-competitive House Subcommittee on Antitrust, hired her mergers outright rather than regulating as Counsel to his subcommittee conduct or requiring merged companies to • Worked with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) divest part of their business on policy approaches regarding monopolies • Thinks FTC should address threat of and breaking up tech companies concentrated control over data by companies • Discussed threat tech giants pose to like Amazon and Google, which she believes democracy with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forces out competition and prevents smaller on his YouTube live show entrepreneurs from entering e-commerce marketplace

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LINA KHAN MAJORITY COUNSEL, U.S. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ANTITRUST, COMMERCIAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

u Selected Publications Speaking Engagements Wrote several academic and opinion pieces on Frequently speaks about challenging antitrust law and application to tech companies corporate power and reforms to antitrust and monopoly laws Academic – Publishes in law journals • Panelist discussing progressive views on • “The New Brandeis Movement: America’s antitrust hosted by the American Constitution Antimonopoly Debate,” Journal of European Society, March 2018 Competition Law & Practice, March 2018 • Speaker discussing regulation of information • “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” Yale Law platforms at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Journal, January 2017 Technology Law & Policy, February 2018 • “Market Power and Inequality: The Antitrust • Panelist discussing enforcement challenges Counterrevolution and its Discontents,” to U.S. monopolization law at the Capitol Harvard Law & Policy Review, April 2016 Forum, December 2017 • ”Market Structure and Political Law: A • Moderated panel on challenging Taxonomy of Power,” Duke Journal of concentrated corporate power for the Constitutional Law & Public Policy, 2014 Rebellious Lawyering Conference at Yale Law School, February 2017 Editorial – Occasional media engagement • Panelist on how the next presidential • ”The Supreme Court just quietly gutted administration tackles corporate power at antitrust law,” Vox, July 2018 Netroots Nation, July 2016 • “Amazon Bites Off Even More Monopoly Power,” , June 2017 Financial Disclosures and Donations • “How Monsanto outfoxed the Obama History of small dollar contributions to Administration,” Salon, March 2013 Democratic candidates

Media Appearances Federal – Range of presidential, Senate, and Talks about antitrust law, specifically as House candidates applied to large tech companies like Amazon • $70 – Warren for President • $50 – Beto for Texas Online – Talks about her views on reforming • $50 – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez antitrust law • $129 – Zephyr Teachout for Congress • Yahoo News: Interviewed about breakthrough • $67 – Bernie 2016 law journal article on Amazon and antitrust, October 2019 • : Interviewed about Amazon and monopoly power, March 2019

Podcast/Radio – Discusses antitrust in the context of tech companies • The Verge: Interviewed about the failings of current antitrust law framework and whether large tech companies should be broken up, February 2019 • NPR: Discussed current antitrust laws and big tech companies, February 2019

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LINA KHAN

MAJORITY COUNSEL, U.S. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE

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Profiles Others Have Written Profiles tend to focus on her rise in prominence as an antitrust scholar and her views on how the law will adapt to technology in the future

David Streitfeld: “Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist has a Breakthrough Idea,” The New York Times September 2018 • Discussed her article on Amazon and how her life has changed since

Robin Meyer: “How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29),” , July/August 2018 • Focused on previous role at OMI and the antitrust reform movement

Info From Formative Years Passion for justice and equality informed by early life and academic studies • Originally wanted to be a journalist because she thought it was the best way to hold powerful people accountable • First foray into corporate accountability came via article critical of Starbucks for not letting students sit down in their shops • Came of age during financial crisis of 2009, and worked in a mortgage litigation clinic with homeowners facing foreclosure • Experience working in mortgage clinic informs views on markets and the government’s role to intervene • Influences include , Joseph Stiglitz, and Louis Brandeis • Heavily influenced by Barry Lynn and credits him for informing how she looks at issues and how economists actually study power

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