Return authority to the agency's regional offices
What the document says“The FTC should consider returning authority to these offices.”
The chapter says regional offices are substantially more in touch with local issues but that their reach and influence has shrunk dramatically over recent decades.
What the document actually says“The FTC should consider returning authority to these offices.”
The agency's local offices have lost power. It should think about giving it back.
This agency has offices around the country. They know local business. The book says they have lost influence.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed addresses the authority held by the FTC's regional offices, or by any agency's regional offices. The nearest candidate, the Memorandum of January 20, 2025 on Return to In-Person Work, directs agencies to end remote work arrangements and bring employees back to their duty stations. That changes where federal employees sit, not what a regional office is empowered to decide, and it is government-wide rather than directed at the FTC. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.