Google Executives Face Senate Subpoenas Over Business Operations

In a letter dated June 10, the Democratic chairman and leading Republican on the antitrust subcommittee asked Google to provide one of the company’s two senior executives before Congress’s August recess.The subcommittee would ‘strongly prefer’ Page or Schmidt at the proceeding, ‘which will address fundamental questions of business operations rather than merely legal issues,’ U.S. senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee wrote. Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, and Lee, of Utah, is the panel’s ranking Republican.