Oumsoumsal licensing for jobs such as cosmotology. And teachers. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Get started. Im happy to see some familiar faces in the audience. For those who dont know me, y name is koren. Im going to pause for a minute. We also have people joining us online. Thats what youre hearing. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. It is a privilege for me to be here today in my capacity as coalong with josh right of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working Group Transparency project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the regular excess and the harms it causes. Working ts of 12 groups. Policy ranging from Environmental Energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups started to release various issue papers, podcasts and short video crows which among other things can be found on our website which s reg product. Org. Todays spaniel the first of these conversations for the antitrust
We also have people joining us online. Thats what youre hearing. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. It is a privilege for me to be here today in my capacity as cohost along with josh wright of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working Group Transparency project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the regular excess and the harms it causes. It consists of 12 working groups. Policy ranging from Environmental Energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups started to release various issue papers, podcasts and short video crows which among other things can be found on our website which is regproduct. Org. Todays spaniel the first of these conversations for the antitrust and Consumer Protection working group and it is devoted to occupational licensing and other restraints on competitions. Im going to turn it over to my comoderator and our hosts were today, lisa kimmel. Thank you very much, ko
For those who dont know me, i am corrine long, and i teach antitrust and intellectual property law. Ill pause for a minute. We saw people joining us online and thats what youre hearing. To everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. Its a privilege for mow to be here today in my capacity as cochair along with josh wright of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working group of the Federalist Societys regulatory transparency project. This was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the issue of regulatory excess and harms it causes. The project consists of 12 working groups each composed of experts in specific fields of regulatory law and policy ranging from environmental and energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups start today release various issue papers, podcasts and short videos, which, among other things, can be found on our website, which is regproject. Org and i invite you all to go to the website. And today is the fi
It and enforcement ornt agency. Our rules allow us to have a quorum, so that is not affecting our work, but we have to Reach Agreement to take action. Fortunately, most of the work the ftc does is very much focused on real harm to consumers, fraud. Those are areas where there is a lot of agreement. Other thing happening under my leadership, i have asked staff to take a look at the things we are doing that maybe need to be better focused, or perhaps have a more limited impact on business, had we . Efine harm sufficiently are using our resources to the best advantage for the American Public . I believe staff is very supportive of that. We are moving ahead. Peter we invited you to talk ftct Telecom Policy and the. What is the dividing line between what the fcc regulates ftcwhat, perhaps, the regulates . Ms. Ohlhausen the dividing line now is different than it was before 2014. Forfcc has authority practices affecting commerce, but we dont have authority over common carriers, and that goes
Are open for business, we are working, were doing the public work, work very well, i think. So there are two current members, im the acting chairman. Im a republican. And i have my colleague, terrell mcsweeny, whos a democrat. But the thing to remember about the ftc is we are generally a bipartisan agency. Were an enforcementoriented agency, so our rules allow us to have a quorum with as few as two commissioners, so that isnt affecting our work. But, of course, we have to Reach Agreement to take action. Fortunately, most of the work that the ftc does is very much focused on real harms to consumers, fraud, we review mergers, we review antitrust issues, and those are areas where there is a lot of agreement. The other thing thats happening, you know, under hi leadership as chairman, ive asked staff to go back and take a look at some of the things that were doing that maybe need to be better focused or perhaps have a more limited impact on business or are our civil investigative demands to