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<br />FIVE YfiARS OF SUPPORT FOR RAILROAD ANTITRUST LEGISLATION <br />Since late 1983, when the first legislation was introduced <br />to reform antitrust laws that allow special exemptions to monopoly <br />railroads, support has been provided by a wide spectrum of <br />organizations -- captive shippers, consumers, national associations <br />of electric utilities, agricultural associations, fertilizer <br />producers, associations of coal producers, chemical manufacturers, <br />and port authorities. <br />Working support in soliciting help from other shipper groups <br />and Members of Congress has been the contribution of some <br />organizations. Others have testified during two hearings in 1984 <br />(one each in Senate end House Judiciary committees), three other <br />hearings in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Monopolies and <br />Commercial Law in the 99th Congress, and four hearings by the <br />Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the 99th. <br />Still others have filed testimony to be included in the <br />record of those hearings and/or have written letters to their <br />Senators and Representatives urging support. <br />The bills are now called the "Clayton Act Amendments of <br />1987" and have been sponsored to date in the Senate by Senators <br />Dennis DeConcini of Arizona end Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming (5.443) <br />and in the House of Representatives by 25 Members headed by those <br />who unveiled the legislation in February, Representatives Mike <br />Synar of Oklahoma, Dan Glickman of Kansas, end Hank Brown of <br />Colorado (H.R.941). <br />This legislation is considerably shorter than its predecessors <br />in the 98th and 99th Congresses ("Railroad Antimonopoly Act", <br />