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Schumer Pushes for Expanded FTC Role
How would you like more power? That, in so many words, was Sen. Charles Schumer’s question to Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
The New York Democrat observed during a Senate hearing that no arm of the federal government has clear jurisdiction over online and offline identity theft.
