Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I would like to put in the Record a letter dated November 23, 2010, on this issue that I sent to the chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Honorable Inez Tenenbaum. I rise in strong support of the gentleman from Kansas' amendment. He is exactly right on this, and we should support him. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Washington, DC, November 23, 2010. Hon. Inez Tenenbaum, Chairman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Bethesda, MD. Dear Chairman Tenenbaum: I am pleased the Commission delayed consideration of a proposed final rule on implementing the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database. Implementing this database properly is very important and I write to clarify the intent of Congress when we passed the relevant provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-314). Several provisions of the staff-proposed final rule run contrary to the intent of Congress and the clear and unambiguous language of the Act. By way of background, the House-passed version (H.R. 4040) of the database provision reported by the Energy and Commerce Committee by a 51-0 vote did not authorize implementation of a database remotely similar to the one set forth in either the Public Law or the proposed final rule. We had bipartisan agreement to evaluate the efficacy of, and only then improve, the Commission's legacy Injury Information Clearinghouse database based on this evaluation.…”