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‘Grave concerns’: FTC leader accuses Jim Jordan of intimidating her staff

 

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on Monday accused Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his Judiciary Committee staff of ethical breaches in a “campaign to intimidate and harass” the agency’s career staff after he threatened to subpoena a number of the rank-and-file attorneys.

 

The move raises the temperature in a heated dispute that threatens to detract from Khan’s aggressive antitrust and consumer protection enforcement plan.

 

Staff for Jordan, a Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, told FTC staff on Tuesday they authorized subpoenas to depose four FTC employees supervising merger enforcement, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The move follows a month of back and forth in which Jordan has sought interviews with 23 staffers.

 

Many of the FTC staff at issue “have decades of experience and diligently served both Republican and Democratic administrations,” Khan said in a letter to Jordan on Wednesday. “This effort seems designed to obstruct and chill the agency’s critical work and raises grave concerns.”

 

Russell Dye, a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee and Jordan, accused Khan of fearing congressional oversight.

 

“It’s clear that Chair Khan’s FTC is afraid of robust congressional oversight and answering for her radical policies and toxic work environment. The Committee’s oversight requests are no different than what we ask of other agencies under our jurisdiction — you have to wonder why Chair Khan is scared of transparency,” Dye said. “And the FTC is so unprofessional that we first learned about her inaccurate and misleading letter from the media rather than the agency itself.”

 

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17 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

Here's another GOP asshole.

 

 


Yeah, I’m pretty sure the bible has many instances where Jesus turned to his many disciples and said, ““Wake the f— up you little s—. What the f— are you all doing? Get the f— out of here. You are defiling the space you [pieces of s—].”

 

What would Jesus do?

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Dan T.

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17 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

Here's another GOP asshole.

 

 

 

That asshole told those kids they were "defiling" the Capitol?!? Here's the ****stain on January 6, before he was in Congress:

 

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Those kids were taking pictures in the Rotunda to mark their final days as volunteer Senate pages.  

 

This dick is on-brand for a GOP Rep.

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Senators Shumer and McConnell condemn GOP Rep. Dickwad Van Orden's conduct toward the Senate pages:

 

The Hill newspaper obtained an account of Van Orden's diatribe at the teens from a page who wrote it down just after it occurred:

 

Wake the f‑‑‑ up you little s‑‑‑‑. … What the f‑‑‑ are you all doing? Get the f‑‑‑ out of here. You are defiling the space you [pieces of s‑‑‑],” Van Orden said, according to the account provided by the page.

“Who the f‑‑‑ are you?” Van Orden asked, to which one person said they were Senate pages. “I don’t give a f‑‑‑ who you are, get out.”

“You jackasses, get out,” he added.

 

‘Jackasses,’ ‘little s‑‑‑‑’: GOP congressman curses out teenage Senate pages | The Hill

 

 

To me, Van Orden made things worse by trying to evoke wounded Civil War soldiers as justification for him being a dick.

 

"The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead,” he said.

“If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?”

 

Asshole.

 
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When Tricia Cotham, a former Democratic lawmaker, was considering another run for the North Carolina House of Representatives, she turned to a powerful party leader for advice. Then, when she jumped into the Democratic primary, she was encouraged by still other formidable allies. 

 

She won the primary in a redrawn district near Charlotte, and then triumphed in the November general election by 18 percentage points, a victory that helped Democrats lock in enough seats to prevent, by a single vote, a Republican supermajority in the state House. 

 

Except what was unusual — and not publicly known at the time — was that the influential people who had privately encouraged Ms. Cotham to run were Republicans, not Democrats. One was Tim Moore, the redoubtable Republican speaker of the state House. Another was John Bell, the Republican majority leader

 

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