'Unlike anything I've seen at the FTC': Biden's chair makes her public debut
Source: Politico
The Federal Trade Commission's first meeting under new Chair Lina Khan broke decades of precedent Thursday by taking place in public — something unheard-of for the notably secretive antitrust and consumer protection agency.
Then it pushed through a series of actions on progressive Democrats' wish list: Fines for companies that lie about products being "Made in America." Greater latitude for launching antitrust probes and lawsuits. And a wider door to writing new regulations — something else the FTC hasn't done much of in decades.
All this came despite fierce objections from the commission's two Republicans, in a sign that partisan rancor is also back in vogue at the Biden-era FTC.
Thursday's videoconferenced session was the first public glimpse of what may lie in store for the 106-year-old agency under its youngest-ever chair, a former Columbia University law professor who made her reputation as a critic of tech giants like Amazon. And fellow tech critics were particularly thrilled.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/ftc-lina-khan-antitrust-chair-497764
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Outlets like Politico and The Hill are the ones that help to manufacture and amplify any "partisan rancor". I.e., "policy differences" and/or approach differences will be minimized in favor of finding the most extreme and clownish loudmouths to be representative of the discourse, and they run with that. 
If they think there were no policy disagreements between the Democrats and Republicans on the FTC prior to the Biden Administration, then that means they purposely weren't paying attention.
The Commissioners cannot be removed for political and/or "for cause" and the Commission can have no more than 3 members of one party.
Here are the current members and since the previous GOP chair, whose term was up in 2024, resigned early (end of January 2021), then Democrats now have control and the new Chair will fill out the term of the old one. Each Commissioner slot has a default of a 7-year term but occupants of a slot can and often do resign before the end of the slot's term - https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/commissioners
Lina Khan (D) CHAIR (Term expires 9/26/24 since term length is for the slot and previous R (& Chair) resigned)
Noah Joshua Phillips (R) (Term expires 9/26/23)
Rohit Chopra (D) (Term expired 9/26/19 but can remain until replacement named)
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (D) (Term expires 9/26/22, previously Acting Chair 1/21/21 - 6/14/21)
Christine S. Wilson (R) (Term expires 9/26/25)
and the other party does not so Politico will say that's partisan 
Democrats...
We are the guardians of our democracy and the process to make it stronger for all. Especially the disenfranchised. I'm keeping up my end with every misled or wilfully ignorant RW TFGschmuckturd.
