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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...

So Charlie Crist has backbone after all By LUCY MORGAN, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief Published September 27, 2003 Our own Charlie Crist deserves an apology. From us, from everyone who called him a lightweight and suggested he was all form and no substance. As attorney general, Crist seems to be coming into his own. I always hate to say good things about a politician, because just as surely as I do they'll do something really stupid. But here goes. This week Crist appointed former Public Counsel Jack Shreve as his top consumer advocate to take on the state's telecommunications companies....