Lina Khan said she was sorry that the two Republican members on the five-person commission did not attend Tuesday's meeting. Photo: Valerie Plesch/BloombergLina Khan Gives Up the Gavel After Contentious 4 Years as FTC Chair
"To my mind, all of this public input and engagement made our work sharper and helped us really set priorities and focus on what people were telling us—the biggest challenges and pain points they were experiencing in our economy," Khan said Tuesday during her final commission meeting as chair.
January 14, 2025 at 08:52 PM
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Lina Khan, a fierce antitrust enforcer who is widely viewed as the most controversial chair of the Federal Trade Commission in a generation, presided over a commission meeting for the final time on Tuesday.
Yet, curiously, it wasn't Khan's efforts to squash what she deemed as anticompetitive practices in a range of industries—from technology to mattress sales—that she threw the spotlight on Tuesday. It was her efforts to widen public participation in the commission's rulemaking efforts.
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