Amazon's Jeff Bezos will be available to testify before Congress

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be available to testify before Congress as legislators conduct a probe into large tech companies.

Robert Kelner, of the Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling, wrote in a letter Sunday to House Judiciary Committee leaders that Amazon is "committed to cooperating with your inquiry," to include "making Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with the other CEOs this summer."

The letter also stated several factors must first be addressed including those "regarding timing, format and outstanding document production issues, all necessarily framed by the extraordinary demands of the global pandemic." 

Kelner also noted that "we think it bears emphasizing that other senior executives now run the businesses that are the actual subject of the committee's investigation."

Committee leaders in May threatened to subpoena Bezos to testify, according to Politico. 

If Bezos testifies it will be the first time he has given Capitol Hill testimony.

The Amazon CEO is the wealthiest man in the world and the owner of The Washington Post.

Politico reported that Rhode Island Democrat Rep. David Cicilline, chairman of the Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law subcommittee, conveyed in a statement Monday that "testimony of CEOs and the production of internal documents is essential to complete this bipartisan investigation into the state of competition in the digital marketplace."

He also said the subcommittee would "continue to use the tools at our disposal to ensure we gather whatever information is necessary for our work.”