Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.

Today is Thursday, June 17th.

New job list claims are up, food delivery app downloads are down, and we're focused on D.C.'s

Newest effort to rein in big tech.

Last week, House lawmakers introduced a series of five bipartisan bills to curb the power of

big tech.

No specific companies get mentioned by name in any of the legislation, but it's pretty

clear that the targets are Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

In a few moments, we'll hear from Representative David Cicillini,

chair of the House antitrust committee and a sponsor on most of these bills, who I spoke

with last night. But first, let's quickly break down what happens if the full quintet becomes law.

For Apple, it would be forced to change how it operates the app store. For Amazon, it could

break up control of its lucrative marketplace.

Google could be forced to sell YouTube.

And Facebook, well, for Facebook, it would become much harder to buy smaller rivals.

And yeah, that's a sort of new antitrust rule that would impact all big tech companies.

But Facebook is kind of the king of the beneficial acquisition, if you think about Instagram and WhatsApp.

The bottom line is that Congress is finally beginning to act after several years of talking about how big tech companies have

become, well, become too big. What I wanted to better understand now is how Congress plans to get

these bills over the finish line in the face of opposition from Silicon Valley, plus in the

midst of Congress trying to pass those big infrastructure bills, and a recent bipartisan bill intended to bolster our tech sector's ability to compete with China.

We'll discuss all of this and more with Congressman Sicilini.

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