White House delays overhaul

Friday, Jan. 18, 2002 | 10:52 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A plan by the Bush administration to overhaul antitrust reviews and give the Justice Department responsibility for oversight of all mergers involving communications, entertainment and software companies was at least temporarily scuttled Thursday after protests from Capitol Hill.

The plan, which would end the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust oversight of those industries and give it responsibility for others, was supposed to be announced at a news conference Thursday. But the news conference was first postponed and then canceled without explanation.

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