We are also grateful for the additional $25 million in funding provided by Congress last year.
It seems to me that, now more than ever, Congressional oversight is needed to 'regulate the regulators' and to hold accountable those regula...
Before Congress decides to give up its constitutional responsibilities for directing Federal spending and providing necessary oversight over...
It is really heartbreaking to realize that these people were really innocent victims of somebody's greed and corruption.
Absolutely, Senator. And I'm a Republican, I should add. But, that was my view then, and it is my view now.
It's important to note that these are representatives of the very businesses we are relying on to create new jobs and put our constituents b...
I would support a prevalence requirement that meant something.
Been used one time.
I would argue that it's really Congress's role to decide when FTC needs that authority, delegate it appropriately, and then have FTC do its ...
my first choice is that the FTC be given all of the authority over consumer protection law enforcement
Might it be that, if we provided the FTC with more resources, this 7-year average proceedings could be shortened?
I think that would be useful, Senator.
If we need additional funding or some priority readjustments, we hope you'll communicate that with us in the appropriate way.
We can bring much-needed transparency to financial services by fully preserving the FTC's enormously important role in protecting consumers ...
We want to do what we need to do here to provide the funding so that we maintain a strong, mobile, and effective Navy and Marine Corps team ...
Consumer advocates believe we need to liberate the FTC from statutory limitations that have shackled the Commission from aggressively and ef...
Whenever and however the Senate addresses financial regulatory reform and consumer protection in the coming weeks and months, I believe this...
So, actually, Magnuson-Moss was a mistake from the get-go.