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Chair Brown Applauds House GOP on FTC Funding Cuts
WASHINGTON – Today, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown applauded Republican leaders on a key House panel for rejecting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) budget request for a nearly 25 percent increase in funding. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government this morning passed its Financial Services and General Government FY 2025 bill, which included $388.7…
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Scott Brown in Fox News: Five crazy ways President Biden is ruining America’s summer fun
WASHINGTON – As we reach the unofficial start of summer, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown highlighted five ways that President Joe Biden is ruining Americans’ summer fun in his latest piece for Fox News. Brown opens by pointing out the Biden Administration’s meddling in the airline industry, which ultimately caused less options and increased…
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ICYMI: Scott Brown: “The Biden Administration Wants To Tax, Spend & Regulate Us Into The Stone Age”
“Lina Khan Has Weaponized the FTC… Makes The Obama Administration Look Conservative” WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown appeared on WFEA’s Morning Update discussing the Biden Administration’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, as well as the broader regulatory overreach harming American competitiveness. Brown, a former U.S. Senator and Ambassador, singled out Lina Khan,…
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ICYMI: Scott Brown in Fox Business: 3 Biden Administration Policies Harming Small Businesses
WASHINGTON – To mark the recent National Small Business Week, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown highlighted three Biden administration policies harming small businesses in his latest op-ed for Fox Business. “First, the Administration continued deflecting responsibility for lingering inflation onto private companies with their obsession over so-called “junk fees,” which are service charges imposed by…
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Chair Brown Applauds House Probe Into FTC’s Involvement in Amazon-iRobot Merger Collapse
WASHINGTON – After House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) launched a probe into the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) role in the collapse of the iRobot-Amazon merger, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown issued the following statement: “American officials tasked with standing up for U.S. interests have no business working with European regulators to squash our…
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Chair Scott Brown Sounds Off on FTC’s Unilateral Action to Ban Noncompetes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2024 Chair Scott Brown Sounds Off on FTC’s Unilateral Action to Ban Noncompetes WASHINGTON – After the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) passed a new rule in a 3-2 party-line vote that bans businesses from including non-compete agreements in an employee’s contract, Chair Scott Brown released the following statement: “Non-compete agreements…
