Congress prepares to grill CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in televised hearing Wednesday.
The heads of the nation's largest cigarette companies are sworn in before a hearing of a House Energy subcommittee which was holding hearings on the contents of cigarettes on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 14, 1994.But hearings aren't always so effective or revealing. Last year, when pharmaceutical CEOs appeared together at a Senate hearing, theyThe tech industry is also different from other types of businesses.
"In a normal antitrust hearing, the Democrats get up and say, 'Big companies are evil,' and the Republicans get up and say, 'Big companies are good.' In this case, we have no idea what they're going to say," Balto said., to Wednesday's witness list, although Twitter as a business is much smaller than the others.
Testifying remotely from a home or an office may take some pressure off the witnesses, but it may also affect the rhythm of questioning in unexpected ways, experts said. "Having to sit there in that room — looking at this panel of lawmakers and answering their questions face to face — is an important moment and spectacle, but at the end of the day it's about the substance," Miller said.
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