Looks like Lawn Darts are returning!
Maybe we can use urea formaldehyde as hair gel and men can finally buy that asbestos formalwear which had been off the market too many years. Tris is for kids and the little tykes will finally be able to purchase all the lead Halloween face paint they’ll ever need. Hooray!!!
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Bush Expected to Name Industry Lobbyist to Head Consumer Safety Agency
Many Senators, Representatives With Oversight Responsibility Claim to Neither Know Nor Caree
By Joseph S. Enoch
ConsumerAffairs.Com Congressional Correspondent
February 16, 2007
Insiders say that Michael Baroody, chief lobbyist for the National Association of
Manufacturers (NAM), a powerful trade group that opposes aggressive product safety regulation, is President Bush’s choice to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
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The CPSC is currently powerless to enact new rules or levy fines because it has had only two commissioners since Chairman Hal Stratton, another Bush appointee, abruptly resigned six months ago to become a lobbyist.
Bush is expected to make his appointment during the long President’s Day weekend, while Congress is out of town.
The White House refuses to comment. Spokesmen there have not returned seven phone calls from ConsumerAffairs.Com over the last week and Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have had no official word on whether an appointment is pending.
But David Baker, a lawyer who represents companies before the CPSC, said he has heard from a number of “private Republican lobbyists” that the appointment “is likely to be a recess appointment.”
Under a recess appointment the nominee can take his or her place at the commission for one year without Congressional approval.
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Images: (Baroody) N.A.M.