WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voiced deep skepticism today about the Bush administration's proposed settlement of the antitrust case against Microsoft, as the company denounced the list of tougher penalties being sought by nine states as "radical and punitive."
At a brief hearing in Congress this morning, both the chairman and the ranking Republican on the committee suggested that the proposed settlement, rather than resolving the epochal litigation between the government and the company, could prompt a new round of legal proceedings because its terms were too vague and difficult to enforce.
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