After major setbacks, FTC Chair Lina Khan heads to the Hill for a grilling on her performance, her track record — and everything else.
, and a fierce opponent of the market power of tech giants and businesses across the economy.
Ultimately, Jordan will have little sway over Khan’s far-reaching goals at the agency. He will, however, do whatever he can to block the FTC’sFor her part, Khan is expected to defend her tenure at the agency. She has previously said the FTC must be aggressive and can’t be afraid to lose cases. And she will not be without allies today.
“We hope that there is a substantive conversation that really brings forth a level of accountability that we think is missing from the current direction that the FTC has headed under chair Khan’s watch,” Sean Heather, senior vice president for international regulatory affairs and antitrust at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in an interview.
Jordan and McMorris Rodgers’ letter highlighted low employee satisfaction, including media reports that 71 senior attorneys left FTC from 2021-2022 – the most in a two-year period since 2000. The lawmakers also asked Khan to share all communications related to complaints about senior FTC leadership, lodged by mostly career-level employees in the competition, enforcement and consumer protection divisions.
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