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forbes.com - 1/16/2009

Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

— forbes.com — Self-congratulation makes for bad law. (more) Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

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openmarket.org - 1/26/2009

Consumer Product Safety Law Backfires, Killing Thousands of ...

— openmarket.org — A consumer-product safety law recently passed by Congress will drive up the price of children’s clothes and... toys and put thousands of small toymakers and children’s clothing makers out of business . (We wrote earlier about how it will enrich trial ... (more) Consumer Product Safety Law Backfires, Killing ...

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/30/2009

Waxman: Yes We Can Reform Health Care This Year

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — To add to what Jonathan Cohn says here , part of the significance of House Energy and... Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman vowing to do health care reform this year is that he’s implicitly rejecting the common notion that progressives need to ... (more) Waxman: Yes We Can Reform Health Care This Year

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CPSIA: Part II at Forbes.com
Overlawyered — ... a new development: Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), who sponsored the law and have opposed efforts to revisit it, issued a letter that seemed to soften their stance a bit and hold out hope for more exemptions. The magazine asked me to analyze these new developments and the result is up now. Unfortunately, the news is bad: the letter’s suggestions for exemptions are piecemeal, narrow, and much too late. We are still on course for a calamity should the law’s provisions go into effect Feb. 10 and (later round) in August — a calamity that ...

Feds target kids’ books as unsafe
Joanne Jacobs — ... minutes, picking up the germs of the toddlers who’ve chewed on it before.  What are the odds of a kid getting seriously sick from Pat the Bunny? A gazillion to one, I’d guess. What are the odds that libraries will use money set aside for buying new books to pay for  useless testing? Children’s clothing will be more expensive to cover the costs of testing the same materials again and again; retailers and resellers say they’ll stop selling children’s clothing to avoid liability. Just repeal the law , advises Walter Olson on Forbes. (Thrift stores and other used-clothing sellers) ...

CPSIA links
Overlawyered — ... Until only weeks ago, Henry Waxman and his allies were blasting the beleaguered leadership of the CPSC for not being tough enough on producers of kids’ goods; now Waxman ...

Tomorrow (Wed.): CPSIA blogging day
Overlawyered — I’m not sure who came up with the idea, but tomorrow, Wednesday, January 28, has been nominated as CPSIA blogging day, and I expect hundreds of bloggers will be taking part, looking at different aspects and consequences of this immensely destructive new law. My posts on it can all be found here, and the two Forbes pieces I’ve written recently are here and here. While you’re here, why not enjoy all of Overlawyered? You can start on the front page, or browse by tag to find posts on topics of interest to you. In the mean ...

CPSIA and the national press
Overlawyered — ... It will be noted that good coverage of CPSIA frequently emanated from “Style”, local-beat, or feature/human interest reporters, and much less often from Washington or government bureaus. I observed in my second Forbes piece that in some quarters of the elite press ...