2 Safety Agency Nominee there is less opposition
Second candidate of President Bush to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Congress on Thursday for his confirmation procedure, with which the opposition of the person as the White House derailed the first election.Last summer, the Senate rejected Mary Sheila Gall, Commissioner of the Agency, as too weak in security matters. President Bush then appoints Harold D. Stratton, a former attorney general of New Mexico and a long critique of regulation.
Although sharing most skeptical philosophical viewpoints regulatory Ms. Gall, he does not have the same kind of opposition from Senate Democrats and consumer associations. The difference, they say, is that Mr. Stratton has a few records on issues related to product safety as a woman Gall, a commissioner of the Agency for the last decade, consumers increasingly violently even against groups of voice and recalls and safety standards, often attributed to children Violation negligent parents on products rather than security, said the expert was altered.
In addition, officials said Congress, Senate Democrats are reluctant to challenge a second candidate after rejecting the first. And finally, if Mr. Stratton is not confirmed, the Agency is paralysed next month, because there is no quorum.
Officials of the administration said that Mr. Stratton ’s has made the right context for skilled labour.
”As a former attorney general of the state, has improved efficiency and productivity high office, he has both the consumer protection experience and administrative experience at the tip of the CPSC,” said Anne Womack, a spokesman for the White House. ”He has a record of the content of consumer protection