Jordan, Rodgers Seek FTC Answers Over Khan Ethics Claims
The FTC needs to turn over documents about Chair Lina Khan’s communication with ethics officials to determine whether she violated ethics rules and misled Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote the FTC Wednesday in a letter signed…
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by House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. Jordan wrote that reports suggest Khan omitted information when responding to questions from Rodgers during a subcommittee hearing on Khan’s communications with the FTC's Designated Agency Ethics Official: Details suggest Khan “declined to fully follow ethics advice” that she recuse herself from a “pending FTC matter in 2022.” The matter involved the DAEO’s analysis on her ability to “sit as a judge in a specific proceeding before the FTC,” he wrote. Jordan requested transcribed interviews with FTC employees in various departments, including the Competition Bureau, the Technology Enforcement Division and the General Counsel’s Office, in a separate letter. Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is also probing agency activity under Khan (see 2306230058). The FTC declined comment.