Posted on 09/10/2009 10:44:27 AM PDT by jazusamo
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a sham of a hearing today on the deleterious effects of the misguided Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA). The hearing is a sham because Chairman Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat, has refused multiple requests for testimony from small-business owners, consumers or anybody other than government officials. Instead, the sole witness will be new Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Inez Moore Tenenbaum, who started her job less than three months ago.
When the legislation at issue is creating havoc among those being regulated, it's hardly constructive to hear only from the regulator. And when the regulator barely has had time to find her bearings, the value of her testimony, unleavened by any other viewpoints, is diminished even further.
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act sets extremely low limits on the lead content of any component of any product sold primarily for use by children, bans a common ingredient used to soften certain plastics even though multiple independent tests have concluded that the chemical is harmless, and makes it a criminal violation even for charities or garage-sale participants to resell any product ever recalled by its manufacturer. It has cost charities such as the Salvation Army dearly and has caused bookstores and libraries to pull treasured children's classics off their shelves.
As far back as March, staffers of the commission itself wrote to Rep. John D. Dingell, Michigan Democrat, urging multiple changes to the new law. Among the many changes they suggested are: first, to make the law not retroactive to products manufactured before the law was passed and, second, to allow the commission to issue common-sense exceptions to the law for certain products (mini all-terrain vehicles, for instance) clearly not likely to cause lead ingestion.
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batboy takes over congress!
This has to be the most repulsive human being I have ever looked at.
Himler, I’m sorry, I meant Waxman is a dictator and needs to go.
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA)Thank you President Bush. |
I can imagine . . . buckets of hot wax . . . and some feathers . . . applied to . . .
a certain birthday suited excuse for a human congress critter . . . actually . . . en masse with all the piles of stinking self-service and globalist stooges would be nice . . .
make that black feathers . . . from buzzards . . .
“Waxman! YOU are a meathead!”
Give’em Hell, Arch!
“This has to be the most repulsive human being I have ever looked at.”
Perhaps the 2nd most - remember Helen Thomas.
However, the most frightening part is that they are both even uglier on the inside.
Oddly enough, Helen Thomas doesn’t bother me, but Waxman makes me literally shudder when I see that nose. I wonder if women (like me) are revulsed more by ugly men and men are more repulsed by ugly women.
***and makes it a criminal violation even for charities or garage-sale participants to resell any product ever recalled by its manufacturer. It has cost charities such as the Salvation Army dearly and has caused bookstores and libraries to pull treasured children’s classics off their shelves. ***
It makes one wonder how our great grandparents down to our own children ever made it to adulthood with all those poisons in everything!
I’ve thought often of that. I haven’t been able to understand how hundreds of millions of us survived all those threats to life and limb.
As far as making it a criminal violation to sell these items at garage sales is not only stupid but unenforceable.
Waxman = Inmate running the asylum.”
With over 10 million people in Los Angeles, one would think there could be a better candidate.
I know a guy who got burned under the new law. He designed a board game about banking. It was designed for parents to play with their kids to teach them about money, credit, cash flow, and the basic concepts of finance.
He couldn’t get a major company interested in it, so he found contractors to make the elements. He assembled the games, then sold them. When this law took effect, his inventory became illegal to sell. Further, it was cost prohibitive to make the pieces and the board at a small scale under the new regulations.
So very true and there has to be many.
The little pig faced creature.. Gollum with nose hair..
Each new law passed that takes things to the “extreme” is one more reason our manufacturing and industrial base is folding or taking their business out of the country.
May Waxman end up one of the runs being perp walked straight to jail.
So many dems are destructive SOBs.
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