Speeches

* Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission. The views expressed are those of the Commissioner and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any other Commissioner or staff

Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to be here today to discuss the antitrust analysis of physician networks and other integrated delivery systems. As always, I must remind you that my remarks today

Last October, I had a wonderful opportunity to address the ACR annual conference and share with your association my views on the direction of the FTC's consumer protection program effort and how your

I am going to exercise some poetic license today and not discuss specific cases, as the program title for this session seems to indicate. Instead, I am going to address some basic horizontal issues

On behalf of Chairman Robert Pitofsky and the Federal Trade Commission, I want to welcome you to this conference on the FTC's Guidelines on Environmental Marketing Claims.

When the Commission issued

As usual, my remarks today reflect my own views, and are not necessarily those of the Commission or of any Commissioner.

My perspective on this program's theme -- "Medicare reform and the private

Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to be here today as a panelist for the Health Trustee Institute to discuss antitrust, hospital mergers, and innovation in health care delivery. As usual, the views I

Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here -- even at this early hour -- to talk with you about the increasingly important issues surrounding personal privacy in the information age.

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The views expressed are those of the Chairman and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any other Commissioner.

I will begin with a "report from Washington" on

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission. The views expressed are those of the Commissioner and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any other Commissioner or staff.

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The views expressed are those of the Commissioner and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any other Commissioner or staff.

Thank you for inviting me to speak to you

Good afternoon. I'm delighted to be back in my home town of Chicago today to review the Federal Trade Commission's law enforcement programs in the areas of environmental marketing and food advertising

It's a pleasure to be here this morning. Today, I'd like to talk with you about antitrust in Cyberspace.

More than twenty-five years ago, DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency undertook development

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I appreciate very much the opportunity to help give you an "Update on the International Antitrust Climate." I could talk all afternoon on this topic, so I will concentrate on

George Orwell's novel Animal Farm recounts the course of a revolution against the discredited old order on farmer Jones's Manor Farm. The victorious animals developed a carefully crafted and sensible

I am pleased to appear today before the Special Committee to Review the Government in the Sunshine Act, to discuss the Federal Trade Commission's experience under this statute and to suggest some

Chairman Pressler and members of the Committee, I am pleased to appear before you today to discuss the jurisdiction and activities of the Federal Trade Commission with respect to livestock and grain

Good morning. I'm pleased to be here representing the Bureau of Competition. It's also good to be back at the Commission after a 15-year absence. It was interesting to find that, after 15 years, many