"Well-crafted regulations can help consumers and businesses, but poor regulatory design can raise prices, stifle innovation, and reduce consumer choice."
"I urge the Senate to take up the bill without delay."
"With House passage of the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act, we must take the next step."
"I believe that, across the board, deregulation and a strong Federal privacy regime cannot coexist."
"It is time to bring the FTC into the modern era, to give it the tools and resources to keep up with changes in the market."
"My Republican Committee colleagues routinely emphasize the need for comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. I agree, and that is why the Committee remains hard at work on privacy."
"Consumer protection enforcement should be based on the activity, not the entity."
"But much of it would replace consumer-driven market forces with government-supervised regulation, the opposite of competition."
"I am a big proponent of regular order. That means engaging in real deliberation, not just checking the boxes."
"The thoughtful proposals Members have made on agency reform deserve attention--in particular, those designed to increase transparency into the Commission, like the FTC Reports Act, sponsored by Congre..."
"we drafted the Clean Future Act in the committee"