President Obama’s choice of a Michigan trial lawyer to serve on the Consumer Product Safety Commission would shift the balance of power at the agency and ensure a pro-regulatory majority through most of 2013,regardless of who is in the White House next year.
Last week Obama nominated Marietta S. Robinson to take the seat of Thomas H. Moore,who left the CPSC last fall. The commission is currently operating with four members — two Democrats and two Republicans. If confirmed by the Senate,Robinson would give Democrats a 3-to-2 majority at an agency that regulates thousands of consumer products from children’s toys to power tools.
The current split at the CPSC has slowed major regulatory actions,at least temporarily. The CPSC will debate its 2012 operating plan on March 7,setting up a potential showdown among commissioners.
The CPSC is charged with “protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction.” In recent years,that role has expanded as a result of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
Many major regulatory actions over the past year were decided along party lines.
Read More at The Foundry By Rob Bluey and Alison Meyer,The Foundry
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The Georgia Administrative Courts just handed a victory to Obama and his Lawyer who did not even bother to show up for their Ballot Eligibility hearing. Naturally they should have lost by default and they should have been held in contempt of court. But our system is hopelessly corrupt and we are now officially stuck with Obama and his defacto dictatorship. Abandon all hope people,the fix is in. Our country has been overthrown in a bloodless coup.
All is NOT lost. Under Georgia law since Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama's lawyer did not appear in court to defend him,Obama basically LOST the case and the issue of his name NOT being on the ballot in Georgia is getting nearer to becoming fact. The judge basically ruled that since Obama did not 'defend'the assertion that his Kenya birth certificate is valid,under Georgia law now IT IS VALID,and that will make it easier for us to REMOVE him from office. And we can also charge Pelosi and send her to prison for her actions of 'approving his paperwork'that does NOT qualify him to hold the office of president. His Kenyan grandmother is still saying she 'was in the room the night he was born in Kenya'.