Mitch Landrieu: “today I am happy to join my colleagues in the House of Representatives, Congressman Moran and Congressman McGovern, in…”

“today I am happy to join my colleagues in the House of Representatives, Congressman Moran and Congressman McGovern, in re-introducing the Product Safety Notification and Recall Effectiveness Act. As my colleagues may recall, this legislation makes it easier for parents to learn when a product they bought may harm their children, so that they might take steps to return the item or have it repaired. On January 6 of this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a study that contained a lot of good news for parents. In its study, NHTSA found that its child safety seat registration program has been incredibly successful. NHTSA implemented this program in March of 1993, and the information that is starting to come in shows that nine times more child safety seats are now registered than before the program was launched. In fact, in 1993 only 3 percent of seats were registered; now 27 percent are. And this is significant, because this has directly led to more effective recalls of defective child seats--the recall repair rate has increased by more than half since 1993, from 13.8 percent to 21.5 percent. The reason I mention this study to my colleagues is because NHTSA's program is very much like the one that this bill would establish.”