Popular Name Statutized?:
Y
Type:
Sponsor
Date Enacted:
Thursday, September 30, 1976
Short Title:
"Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976"
Classification:
15 USC 1 (note)
PL:
94-435
Statute At Large:
90 Stat 1383
Named For?:
Sen. Philip Hart (D-MI), Sen. Hugh Scott, Jr. (R-PA), and Rep. Peter Rodino (D-NJ). Rodino was Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Hart was Chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee on Senate Judiciary, and Scott retired in 1976. In an interview for the Senate Historical Office Oral History Project, former Senate Judiciary Counsel Chuck Ludlam claimed that Rodino in fact "hated" the bill but settled for getting it through his committee, which was more liberal than he was, in exchange for having his name attached to the legislation.
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Interesting Part Statutized?:
Y
Notes:
Final section of this act statutized the short titles of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the Webb-Pomerene Act, and the Wilson Tariff Act.