mr. bedoya to fill the last seat on the federal trade commission. mr. bedoya has the right experience to tackle the problems faced rye now, some of the faced right now, regarding how to protect our privacy and children's online privacy. i say that because i heard my comments from my colleague about mr. bedoya and the fact that he issued various tweets about this or that in his time in the private sector. i guarantee if we voted for people based on their tweets, there would be a lot of people that wouldn't be approved at all, including some of the people that have been through this process. mr. bedoya served as the chief counsel of the u.s. senate judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology and law. i would says as it relates to te f.t.c.'s ability to do something about reining in some of the bad practices we see online, he's a very qualified person and individual. mr. bedoya graduated summa cume lauda from harvard and holds a law degree from yale where he was on the yale law journal. he received the paul daisy fellowship for new americans. mr. bedoya h

mr. bedoya is so urgently needed and frankly, the obstruction over mr. bedoya is truly unacceptable given the f.t.c. is so important for fighting potential price manipulations. republicans know this yet his nomination has been deadlocked not once but twice at the committee level. for all the howling our republican friends are doing about rising costs, they are truly content with dragging their feet on public servants who could actually help solve the problem. so shame on those who are blocking for that. without mr. bedoya, the f.t.c. and members are left handicapped and incapable of moving forward. so today's motion to disarnlings is a matter of -- discharge is a matter of immense importance and i hope all my colleagues who care about fighting inflation and price manipulation vote to proceed with mr. bedoya's nomination. stock buybacks by the oil companies have dramatically increased this year. why is that money going into stock buybacks instead of into other much more productive uses? that's another thing the f.t.c. could take a look at. now, as the day