Lori Trahan: “Even the half baked attempts at negotiation, like an FTC…”

“Then, when it came time to try to make their bill bipartisan, the sponsors promised individual Democratic members that substantive changes would be made to improve the bill. Those improvements never happened. Even the half baked attempts at negotiation, like an FTC study on agents, was struck from the final version of the bill. And because this bill remains so fundamentally flawed, its prospects in the Senate are slim to none. So that's why I'm here this evening, Madam Chair.” (02:31–02:39)

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