Facing hours of partisan attacks and personal insults Thursday from the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan remained unflappable. Members of the panel — who have reportedly received up to $400,000 in campaign contributions from Big Tech employees and PACs — lambasted the former Columbia Law School professor for her adherence to ethics laws and her agency's attempts to enforce antitrust regulations in a rapidly conglomerating industry.
Republican men called her a "bully," called her leadership "a disaster," accused her of "misleading" the committee, and said her efforts to uphold anti-monopoly rules are "going to fail." Committee chair and Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan — who reportedly received $76,000 from employees and PACs of Big Tech companies over the course of his career — even accused Khan, a Biden appointee, of "harassing" the company Twitter.
