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Looks Like Trump’s Consumer Product Safety Commission Nominee Is Toast

Nancy Beck doesn’t appear to have the votes to get out of committee.

WASHINGTON ― It looks like President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Beck, isn’t going anywhere.

It’s just math. Beck’s nomination doesn’t appear to have the votes to clear the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a committee member, announced her opposition earlier this month, which would put the vote count at a 13-13 tie if every other Republican voted yes and every Democrat voted no. A tie means Beck almost certainly doesn’t advance.

There’s no reason to believe any Democrat on the committee would vote yes, given the strong objections to Beck’s nomination by virtually every environmental and consumer advocacy group you can think of.  Continue reading.

After hundreds of crashes, this Britax jogging stroller faced recall. Then Trump appointees stepped in.

The crashes were brutal. With no warning, the front wheel on the three-wheeled BOB jogging strollers fell off, causing the carriages to careen and even flip over. Adults shattered bones. They tore ligaments. Children smashed their teeth. They gashed their faces. One child bled from his ear canal.

Staff members at the Consumer Product Safety Commission collected 200 consumer-submitted reports from 2012 to 2018 of spontaneous failure of the stroller wheel, which is secured to a front fork by a quick-release lever, like on a bicycle. Nearly 100 adults and children were injured, according to the commission. The agency’s staff members investigated for months before deciding in 2017 that one of the most popular jogging strollers on the market was unsafe and needed to be recalled.

“The danger that was there was just so obvious,” said Marietta Robinson, a former Democratic commissioner who was still at the agency when the injury reports surfaced. “It was appalling.”

View the complete April 2 article by Todd C. Frankel on The Washington Post website here.