Consumer Law

Senate Negotiators Appear to Agree on CPSC Reform Bill

By Brian Wolfman

This article from yesterday's Washington Post reports that Democratic Senators Mark Pryor and Daniel Inouye and Republican Senator Ted Stevens have agreed on legislation to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The article says that the bill would, among other things, more than double the CPSC's budget over the next eight years. Other attributes of the bill are set out in the Post article. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill in early March. The House passed CPSC legislation last December, but, as the Post article notes, the House bill is not identical to the Senate bill.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on February 17, 2008 (boomark / email).