1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Monopolization Deterrence Act of 2019 . 2. Findings and purposes (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) competitive markets are critical to ensuring opportunity for all people in the United States; (2) when companies compete, businesses offer the highest quality and choice of goods and services for the lowest possible prices to consumers and other businesses; (3) competition fosters small business growth, reduces economic inequality, and spurs innovation; (4) in the United States economy today, the exercise of market power is substantial and growing; (5) anticompetitive exclusionary conduct is an important source of market power and a substantial threat to the United States economy; (6) the exercise of market power tends to lessen the rate of innovation, slow the growth of productivity, and increase economic inequality in the directly affected markets and economy-wide; (7) the civil remedies currently available to cure violations of section 2 of the Sherman Act ( 15 U.S.C. 2 ), including injunctions, equitable monetary relief, and private damages, have not proven sufficient, on their own, to deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct; and (8) in some cases, effective deterrence requires the imposition of civil penalties, alone or in combination with existing remedies, including structural relief, behavioral relief, private damages, and equitable monetary relief, including disgorgement and restitution. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to enable the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil monetary penalties, in addition to existing remedies, for monopolization offenses and anticompetitive exclusionary conduct