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is as important as the overriding requirements for
consumer protection.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Well, Delegate Bard, you made
the very point. The matter is being currently discussed
in Congress?
But let us go to the second of the two examples
you gave, and that is the example of sweaters and the chemis-
try that was involved in those. Do you propose to set
up a state Federal Trade Commission to take care of this
kind of problem?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bard.
DELEGATE BARD: The consumer protection agency
that is now in existence. Delegate Case,and you may be
familiar with it, is one that has been placed in existence
in a Federal relationship it can go out of existence
tomorrow, as you all know.
We have heard testimony on the part of those
associated with them and I hold no brief for that
agency. Indeed, my own feeling would be that there would
be an entirely different kind of relationship in respect