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The Federal Trade Commission is back up to its full strength Wednesday after the Senate voted 95-1 to confirm Terrell McSweeny to be the third Democratic commissioner on the five-member agency, giving the Democrats on the commission a majority.
Having five commissioners is critical to merger rulings, which require a majority vote to block or intervene in a transaction.
It took 10 months for the Senate to finally confirm McSweeny, who was nominated by President Obama last June.
A former domestic policy advisor to vice president Joe Biden, McSweeny was most recently a senior counsel of competition policy in the antitrust division at the Department of Justice.
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