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...representative's office, you have Bill Brock negotiating with the Japanese about a fourth year of protection from Japanese imports of automobiles. Simultaneously, you have Elizabeth Dole at the Department of Transportation developing a new scheme for auto airbags. Now we get into interesting questions: what criteria' should the FTC, Bill Brock, and Elizabeth Dole use to make the decision that they're going to make with regard to the automobile industry...
...sweaty, dirty, two-ton gorilla with a bad case of halitosis," trumpeted Texas Delegate Frank Jones Jr. "They're asking you to dance with it. I'm saying, don't do it." His colleagues took his message, if not his metaphor. They opposed more FTC oversight by an overwhelming voice vote...
Regulatory Agencies. All Federal Election Commission regulations have been subject to unilateral veto by either the House or Senate. Any Federal Trade Commission ruling could be disapproved by majority vote of both houses. Last year Congress was persuaded by intense lobbying to veto an FTC regulation that required used-car dealers to tell customers about defects...
After clerking for a federal Court of Appeals Justice and spending two years in the Solicitor General's office, Reich moved on to the FTC where he concentrated on protectionism, parallel pricing, and industry trade practices. It was there that he formulated the ideas that have become Campaign '84 required reading and could be a major part of the Democratic platform. He calls his FTC tenure "an extremely important experience," but in order to write. "I needed time to think and the Kennedy School couldn't be a better environment to work...
...rivals want the Federal Trade Commission to bar the venture as a violation of antitrust law. An official of the FTC, which is reviewing the deal, said that a decision on whether to challenge it would be "a very close call." The GM-Toyota linkup has congressional critics too. One opponent, Ohio Representative John Seiberling, has urged early hearings on the agreement...