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House Leaders Suggest FTC Crack Down On Pandemic-Spurred Price Gouging, Hoarding

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

The same day Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone submit a letter to the FTC, the agency announced work and travel schedule changes it is making in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Concept of the impact and threat of the corona virus health crisis, protective hygienic masks out of stock in purposely blurred drugstore shelves

Leaders of the US House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce committees urge the Federal Trade Commission to stop consumer health product price-gouging and hoarding spurred by the coronavirus outbreak.

The same day that Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, NY, and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, NJ, submitted a letter to the FTC, the agency posted an announcement about work and travel

Nadler and Pallone, joined by fellow Democrats David Cicilline, RI, chairman of the Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, and Jan Schakowsky, IL, Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee chairwoman, noted media reports of high prices and shrinking supplies of health and household care products. In their

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