{"id":34508,"date":"2021-04-28T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34508"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:55:42","slug":"acting-ftc-chair-turns-to-congress-after-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34508","title":{"rendered":"Acting FTC chair turns to Congress after Supreme Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair\u00a0Rebecca Kelly Slaughter\u00a0on Tuesday called for Congress to pass legislation that would revive the agency\u2019s ability to return money to constituents harmed by companies found to engage in deceptive practices.<\/p>\n<p>Slaughter testified before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection and commerce roughly a week after the Supreme Court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvwwhnf_qvmmggswstmfmdgfshgm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvwwhnf_qvmmggswstmfmdgfshgm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619714284627000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH8y939NG4-G4YuU_RRiwq7Z_if-Q\">unanimously ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the FTC\u2019s authority under a provision known as Section 13(b) does not grant the agency the ability to obtain equitable monetary relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese recent decisions have significantly limited the Commission\u2019s primary and most effective tool for providing refunds to harmed consumers, and, if Congress does not act promptly, the FTC will be far less effective in its ability to protect consumers and execute its law enforcement mission,\u201d Slaughter testified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair\u00a0Rebecca&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34509,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34508\/revisions\/34509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}