Pelosi Calls for CSPC Head's Resignation (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Pelosi Calls for CSPC Head's Resignation

Tuesday October 30, 2007 7:16 PM

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday
called for the resignation of the head of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission following the millions of recalls of
Chinese-made toys.

Nancy Nord, the agency's acting head, has been under fire in
Congress for opposing Democrats' legislation to expand her
agency's budget and work.

“Any commission chair who does not, in the face of the facts
that are so clear, say we don't need any more authority or any
more resources to do our job, does not understand the gravity
of the situation,” said Pelosi, who has been joined in her
call for Nord's resignation by other Democrats in the House and
Senate. “I call on the president of the United States to ask
for the resignation.”

Nord, in an Oct. 24 letter to the Senate Commerce Committee,
said a Democratic bill that would expand her agency “could have
the unintended consequence of hampering, rather than furthering,
consumer product safety.”

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7036345,00.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Baby Steps

Maybe she's headed toward putting impaechment on the table.

[AndyA]

3. I'll believe that when I see it.

As far as I can tell, Nancy isn't even in the dining room, much less be worried about what's on the table!

[Danieljay]

2. Who is Pelosi? Didn't she used to be the 'new sheriff in town'? n/t

[gratuitous]

4. How come we only hear about this from a foreign source?

I guess the American media outlets are too busy telling us about the tragic deaths of some college students at a beach house. Granted, it's a sad story, but it doesn't really affect me here in the Pacific Northwest. Poisoned toys, however, and the flaccid response of the government agency that's supposed to be working in the public interest against them, is certainly of interest to me and millions of other Americans.

But let's talk to a man who lost his daughter in the fire. I wonder if he's sad?

[Eugene]

5. It's coming out now.

Guardian Unlimited's AP wire tends to be one of the fastest.

http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/289674.html

[rodeodance]

6. good