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 Nancy
Ann Nord
NANCY NORD News:
20071102
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 Nancy
Nord
-  Children
-  Safety
-  Politics
-  Government
- Consumer
-  Law
-  Enforcement
- Manufacturer
- Travel
-  Money
-  China
-  Spain
-  US
- San
Francisco -  California
- New
Orleans -  Louisiana
-  SC
- "Industries
Paid for Top Regulators' Travel: Two Heads of Product
Safety Agency Accepted Trips From Manufacturer Groups." ... "The chief
of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken
dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture
industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained
by The Washington Post. Some of the trips were sponsored by lobbying groups
and lawyers representing the makers of products linked to consumer hazards."
... "The records document nearly 30 trips since 2002 by the agency's acting
chairman, Nancy Nord, and the previous chairman, Hal Stratton, that were
paid for in full or in part by trade associations or manufacturers of products
ranging from space heaters to disinfectants. The airfares, hotels and meals
totaled nearly $60,000, and the destinations included China, Spain, San
Francisco [California], New Orleans [Louisiana] and a golf resort on Hilton
Head Island, S.C. [South Carolina.]" ... "Consumer groups and lawmakers
intensified their criticism of the CPSC this summer after several highly
publicized recalls of Chinese-made toys that contained hazardous levels
of lead. Critics have long charged that the agency has become too close
to regulated industries, opting for "voluntary" standards and repeatedly
choosing not to take legal action against businesses that refuse to recall
dangerous products." ... "Government-wide travel regulations state that
officials from agencies such as the CPSC should not accept money for travel
from nonfederal sources if the payments "would cause a reasonable person
. . . to question the integrity of agency programs or operations."" ...
""This is a blatant violation of the ethics code," said Craig Holman, an
expert on governmental ethics law for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group
Public Citizen." ... "The records show that Nord and Stratton repeatedly
accepted gift travel for events from industries subject to CPSC enforcement."
(1, 2,
3)
-By Elizabeth Williamson
-WashingtonPost
20071101
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Nancy
Nord
- US
- China
- Manufacturers
- Children
- Safety
- Politics
- Government
- Consumer
- Law
- Enforcement
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 Illinois
- "Toy
risk isn't a game." ... "Worried about all those
potentially hazardous toys coming in from China? Here's how worried your
Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, D.C., is: It has only
one full-time employee testing toys." ... "That ridiculous number is apparently
OK with the agency's acting chairwoman Nancy Nord, who has riled legislators
and consumer groups by campaigning against a Senate bill that would increase
the consumer agency's federal funding so it can rebuild the agency's dramatically
downsized staff." ... "Heads are rolling in China over bad toys, bad food,
bad medicine and bad tires (admittedly, the crackdowns are more about protecting
exports than protecting consumers). But even as consumer worries escalate
in this country following the recall of more than 20 million toys this
year, Nord prefers a hands-off approach to keep manufacturers happy. For
her, the consumer protection reform act --unanimously approved by a Senate
committee yesterday -- is "unnecessary."" ... ""It's appalling that as
someone who works with parents who have lost children, she would turn down
added resources or powers to protect children," Nancy Cowles, executive
director of Kids in Danger, a Chicago[Illinois]-based group, told us. "What's
needed is an aggressive protector of consumer rights.""
-SunTimes.com
20071030
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Nancy
A Nord
- Children
- Safety
- Consumer
- Law
- Enforcement
- US
- China
- Manufacturing
- Business
-
 Halloween
- California
- "US
House speaker wants product safety chief to go."
... "The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Tuesday
for the nation's chief product safety regulator to resign, following a
wave of recalls this year of millions of lead-tainted toys made in China."
... "As the [Republican President] White House and business groups criticized
legislation meant to beef up safety oversight, House Speaker [California
Democratic Representative] Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats urged the ouster
of Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Acting Chairman Nancy Nord."
... "The safety agency, criticized at a September hearing for having just
one employee testing toys, has come under intense scrutiny amid the flurry
of recalls." ... "In early October alone, recalls ranged from Cub Scout
badges to play blocks and Halloween candy buckets." ... ""Any commission
chair who ... says we don't need any more authority or any more resources
to do our job does not understand the gravity of the situation," Pelosi
said." (1, 2,
3)
-By Kevin Drawbaugh and Diane Bartz with contributions
by Julie Vorman -Reuters
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Nancy
A Nord
- Children
- Safety
- Politics
- Manufacturing
- Industry
- Consumer
- Law
- Enforcement
- Government
- "Strengthening
of Consumer Agency Opposed by Its Boss." ... "The
top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days
to reject legislation that would strengthen the agency that polices thousands
of consumer goods, from toys to tools." ... "On the eve of an important
Senate committee meeting to consider the legislation, Nancy A. Nord, the
acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has asked lawmakers
in two letters not to approve the bulk of legislation that would increase
the agency’s authority, double its budget and sharply increase its dwindling
staff." ... "Ms. Nord opposes provisions that would increase the maximum
penalties for safety violations and make it easier for the government to
make public reports of faulty products, protect industry whistleblowers
and prosecute executives of companies that willfully violate laws." ...
"The measure is an effort to buttress an agency that has been under siege
because of a raft of tainted and dangerous products manufactured both domestically
and abroad. In the last two months alone, more than 13 million toys have
been recalled after tests indicated lead levels of almost 200 times the
safety ceiling." ... "Ms. Nord’s opposition to key elements of the legislation
is consistent with the broadly deregulatory approach of the [Republican
President] Bush administration." ... "She opposed making it easier to bring
criminal prosecutions of companies that knowingly sell defective products
and also criticized a measure that would make it easier for the commission
to publicly disclose reports of faulty products." -By
Stephen Labaton -NYTimes
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