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Andrea Joy Campbell: “I had the honor to be director of the Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, during the administration of…”

On the recordMay 24, 2000
I had the honor to be director of the Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. As a result, I am an FTC graduate. I used to bring antitrust lawsuits on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission. And the Federal Trade Commission, to my knowledge, has opposed every exemption from the antitrust laws ever proposed. I do not run the risk of being corrected on that. I remember testifying before Congress, when I was the director of the Bureau of Competition, for a limitation on the antitrust exemption for ocean shipping. In each case, the FTC and the Department of Justice do exactly what we would expect of them, and I do not fault them at all.
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Andrea Joy Campbell
Massachusetts

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Discussing his experience with the Federal Trade Commission and antitrust laws.

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