Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, and welcome to Axios Recap, presented by Facebook.

Today's Wednesday, October 21st.

Oil prices are down, Bitcoin prices are up, and we're focused on the United States versus Google.

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a 63-page antitrust lawsuit against Google. Haven't read it yet? Just Google it. And yeah, that's the problem. Google isn't just a company.

It's a verb. And DOJ argues that its search and search advertising dominance goes well beyond consumer

preference and into consumer abuse, basically forcing us to use Google Search and then bend

to all its privacy and data collection practices.

And for you iPhone users who don't think you use Google Search, it's probably worth noting

that it's Google Search that powers Safari.

Google, of course, argues that what

DOJ is saying is nonsense, equating itself to a type of cereal on a supermarket shelf.

We can pick the box you like the most.

But even if that argument proves compelling, it'll only be after lots of litigation,

not only with federal government, but possibly with a large number of states

that so far opted against joining yesterday's lawsuit, not because they disagree with it necessarily,

but instead because they wish DOJ had gone further, including other Google services like YouTube.

If all of this sounds a bit familiar, it could be because the House Subcommittee on antitrust

recently issued a pretty scathing report about Google and other big tech companies.

So we want to speak with the chair of that committee, Representative David Sissaline of

Rhode Island, about his thoughts on the DOJ suit and where things go from here.

That conversation in 15 seconds.

We're joined now by Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline. So, Congressman, you read, I assume, the DOJ lawsuit yesterday. It is narrower

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