FTC chairman doubts more cuts to agency. (James C. Miller on the Federal Trade Commission budget)

Daily News Record, November, 1984 by Taylor, Hal

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- James Miller, 3d, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said he does not believe there will be further cuts in the agency's budget.

Miller said that the Reagan Administration in its first four years had accomplished its goal of a 30 per cent reduction of the FTC funding level. Despite the administration's current effort to find new cuts in federal spending, he told the National Press Club that "I don't foresee further reductions" in the FTC's budget.

The FTC in Fiscal year 1985 has a budget of about $64 million, which Miller said amounts to "ample resources to carry out its statutory missions."

Meanwhile, the White House has announced that Mary Azcuenaga has been given a recess appointment as a Commissioner of the...

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