TPA Reacts to Judiciary Committee Report on the Federal Trade Commission

For Immediate Release

Contact: Kara Zupkus, (224)-456-0257

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) applauded the House Judiciary Committee’s release of a bombshell report in its ongoing effort to bring oversight and accountability to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The report, released late last week, contained extensive material demonstrating the agency’s abusive conduct under the current leadership.

TPA Executive Director Patrick Hedger offered the following comment:

“What this report makes clear is that the current FTC, besides being economically radical, is suffering under the yoke of deeply dysfunctional leadership. It is a simple issue of good and bad administration, not one of partisanship. Largely relying on the testimony of agency staff, the Judiciary Committee revealed how far Chair Lina Khan has alienated dedicated career staffers by creating a toxic professional environment at the FTC. Also, the agency’s leadership has chased after novel legal theories at the expense of its less high-profile – but no less important – mission of protecting American markets and consumers by deterring and policing fraud and unequivocally anticompetitive conduct.

“Perhaps aware on some level of its own wrongdoing, the FTC has repeatedly withheld information from congressional overseers. This report from the Judiciary Committee is a significant step towards reestablishing accountability. This process is a necessary service to the American people. And as Congress continues to work to rein in the FTC’s abuses, it should refrain from passing any bill that would give further power to the agency.”