The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked for a second time Thursday on Alvaro Bedoya, President Joe Biden’s pick for the final commissioner spot on the Federal Trade Commission. The committee voted 14-14 along partisan lines. The committee previously deadlocked on Bedoya, a Georgetown Law School professor and privacy advocate, late last year. The deadlock doesn’t torpedo his nomination, but it...
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