The Wall Street Journal: Senator Wyden Maintains Hold On FTC Nominee Over Gas Prices
By MARK WIGFIELD
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
June 3, 2004
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said Wednesday he would continue to block the Bush administration’s nominee for chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission after she failed to convince him that she would aggressively police gasoline prices.
Wyden’s questioning of Republican nominee Deborah Majoras dominated the confirmation hearing as he pushed her to change direction of an agency he said has failed to protect consumers from what he called anticompetitive practices in the gasoline industry.