Google to panel: Page, Schmidt won't testify

Apparently, Goggle refused a request by the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee that CEO Larry Page or Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt appear to testify at an upcoming hearing on the tech giant’s competitive conduct.

The answer came despite a veiled threat by the panel’s leading members, Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) and ranking member Mike Lee (R-Utah), to issue a subpoena to force one or the other Google executives to testify. Google offered to have Chief Legal Officer David Drummond testify instead. But the lawmakers said they “strongly prefer” Page or Schmidt because the hearing “will address fundamental questions of business operations rather than merely legal issues,”