The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Thursday jumped in the middle of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing data security trial against medical testing facility LabMD, holding a three-hour hearing that questioned whether the agency’s case is appropriate or fair.

The FTC is “using its regulatory authority not to help protect consumers but to get simple consent decrees using the unlimited power it has,” said committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

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