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FTC Requests Expanded Authorization to Fight Consumer Fraud

Today the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Reauthorization. Testimony was presented on the agency’s work in the areas of competition and consumer protection, and future plans for programs that respond to the challenges from the wide range of consumer fraud conducted via the Internet, along with high-profile issues in the news such as personal data collection and web privacy, unsolicited commercial e-mail, IP and competition and antitrust enforcement.

  • Text of the Commission Testimony, Presented By Chairman Timothy J. Muris
  • Statement of FTC Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson
  • Statement of FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle
  • Statement of FTC Commissioner Thomas B. Leary
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