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Congress Passes Bill Named After 18-Month-Old Who Died After Swallowing Battery
CBS News ^ | AUGUST 5, 2022 | Caitlyn O'Kane

Posted on 08/05/2022 12:49:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

I guess legislators will never be satisfied until they have protected people from every possible peril while making products more expensive and covered with labels and regulations.

Like the prosed legislation to force auto makers to put sensors in back seat to remind parents/drivers of children in back seat... seriously, anyone dumb enough to leave a child in a car is not going to be helped by such a warning.


21 posted on 08/05/2022 1:09:05 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: GreyFriar
Why not just require all battery’s to be made no smaller or less in weight that the common building brick?

I can't even imagine the size of a TV remote. :)

22 posted on 08/05/2022 1:09:37 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Political Junkie Too
require warning labels and require that the warning labels clearly identify the hazard of ingestion

"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!"

23 posted on 08/05/2022 1:13:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: albie
..NO. It’ll raise the price of batteries for everyone.

I agree. And it's a dumb editorial comment from CBS. But CBS isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer (warning: knives are sharp and can cause injury).
24 posted on 08/05/2022 1:14:02 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: nickcarraway

Amendment coming to have a legal minimum size for bullets and ammo?
Ghoulish to use a deceased child’s name in such a gratuitous way.


25 posted on 08/05/2022 1:14:38 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Honest Nigerian

“You...don’t....hate....children....do you?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uttme64lZE8


26 posted on 08/05/2022 1:17:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Will they limit the number of batteries you can own? /s?


27 posted on 08/05/2022 1:19:32 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: gloryblaze

I’ve known for a long time swallowing batteries is dangerous. Don’t know how I found out.


28 posted on 08/05/2022 1:19:48 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Right Brother

At least you wouldn’t lose it so easily...


29 posted on 08/05/2022 1:20:54 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Exactly.


30 posted on 08/05/2022 1:21:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: nickcarraway

LOL!!!


31 posted on 08/05/2022 1:22:06 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: dfwgator
LOL! Good recall!

-PJ

32 posted on 08/05/2022 1:22:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nickcarraway
... strengthens safety standards for products with button batteries ...

There are a lot more buttons than batteries. Let's ban them too.

33 posted on 08/05/2022 1:23:44 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: Honest Nigerian
Ghoulish to use a deceased child’s name in such a gratuitous way.

They've been doing that for a long time. Megan's law, Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection, etc
34 posted on 08/05/2022 1:24:41 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: GreyFriar

Wait - so this means all hearing-aid batteries have to be big now?

There goes the whole purpose of making them smaller so no one can tell. Mom will be very upset.


35 posted on 08/05/2022 1:24:45 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“So billion dollar industry will have to change and modify all of its batteries at a cost of billions and billions of dollars because a parent carelessly left a button battery out for her child to swallow.”

No. The items that use these batteries may require modification.


36 posted on 08/05/2022 1:25:59 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: Leep
Will they limit the number of batteries you can own? /s?

Nobody needs a high capacity assault battery!

37 posted on 08/05/2022 1:27:08 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: fretzer

4500 pages?

Can you say Mega Pork


38 posted on 08/05/2022 1:27:58 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: the OlLine Rebel

You’re darn tootin’. Of course they could make hearing aid batteries an inch or two in diameter and use an ear lobe extender as the battery holder. And it will provide the answer to ‘such big ears you have grandma.’


39 posted on 08/05/2022 1:29:17 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: TexasGator

Modification? Do you mean that we should all return to the 1970s where C and D cell batteries were the norm?

No thanks.


40 posted on 08/05/2022 1:30:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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