business practices that are likely to lead to higher prices and lower quality of goods and services intand at the same time works to protect consumers from false advertising and telemarketing data and other forms of fraud. the ftc has had success of justice case against volkswagen in which it obtained $11 billion in compensation for consumers to purchase clean diesel car as it turned out not to b be cleaned y the commission should be doing more in my opinion. in order to do more and support consumers, the ftc needs the support and legislative authorization from congress and instead of working with the ftc, the committee just two years ago sought to further reduce the already limited authority of the ftc and i'm hopeful we will not see that again. the ftc is a relatively small agency especially given the breadth of its mission and the area of the data privacy and security one of the more critical consumer protection issues tissues today the ftc's e division is 45 full-time employees. and only 35 of those are attorneys able to bring enforcement actions. these are important since the commissi