Klobuchar Pushes Broad Antitrust Revamp As Hawley Targets Tech

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle took a swipe at overhauling antitrust laws Thursday with disparate tactics for regulating large technology companies that offer a narrow window for bipartisan compromise on the issue.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced broad antitrust reform legislation that would beef up enforcement and revamp underlying antitrust laws. The bill stands in contrast to a largely symbolic proposal to ban mergers by big technology companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.‘s Google, which Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) offered unsuccessfully as an amendment to Senate Democrat’s budget resolution.

The new chair of the Senate Judiciary’s ...