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Rep Barton Says CPSC's Public Database Rule Overstepped Congressional Intent

Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a November 23, 2010 letter from Representative Barton (R), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to CPSC's Chairman Tenenbaum. The letter states that the agency's final rule…

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to establish a publicly available and searchable database of consumer product safety incidents runs contrary to Congressional intent in several respects, including an overly broad interpretation of who may submit incident reports.