FTC Nominee Grilled by Senate Panel
Wright said he'd recuse himself from Google case
If the Senate clears his nomination for the Federal Trade Commission, Joshua Wright will sit out the agency's investigation into Google.
In response to some tough questioning Tuesday from several Senate Democrats on the Commerce Committee during his nomination hearing, Wright said he would recuse himself from the antitrust probe into Google.
An economist and law professor at George Mason University, Wright had his conservative views on the FTC's antitrust authority come under fire from Senate Dems, who were concerned that a paper Wright wrote last year criticized the FTC's investigation of Google.
"You have written some things that give me pause," Sen.
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