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DeMint Amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution
April 1, 2009 by Dana
Filed under CPSIA Updates, Rally Archive
SUPPORT THE DEMINT AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE BUDGET RESOLUTION
Senator DeMint will offer an amendment to the budget resolution to create a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect small and home businesses from the burdensome and impractical requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008.
The CPSIA has caused many small and home businesses to unnecessarily increase the costs of their products without providing substantial improvement in product safety. The legislation was drafted so broadly that it swept up small and family businesses that were never part of the problem. The law imposes burdensome testing requirements when more common-sense approaches could guarantee the same level of safety. Congress should have done better and it can do better.
The amendment that Senator DeMint will offer would:
- Delay the lead limits 6 months.
- Congress and American businesses need breathing room so that we can fix this act.
- Exempt thrift stores and other second hand sellers
- The Goodwill and the Salvation Army have never been a safety problem and in these hard economic times people need access to affordable goods now more than ever.
- Exempt the sale of books and children’s motorcycles from the CPSIA.
- Books and bikes were never the problem. These two products are the perfect example of the law of unintended consequences.
- Allows manufacturers to show that their products are within the lead limits by showing that all the components of their products are within the lead limit.
- Lead doesn’t come out of thin-air! If it’s not in the component it won’t be in the product. This is a common-sense approach that will save businesses thousands of dollars without compromising safety one bit.
- Prevents retroactive enforcement that would require otherwise safe products from having to be destroyed.
- There are hundreds of millions of dollars of safe products on the shelves and in warehouses today that should be sold. It is senseless to make businesses destroy perfectly good products.
These reforms will go a long way to fixing the CPSIA. It’s also important to outline what this amendment won’t do.
The amendment will not change the lead limits in the Act. The amendment would keep the same lead limits in place in the bill and require that the overwhelming majority of all children’s product sold in the U.S. – except the few exempted above – meet the stringent new standards in the CPSIA. This is crucial. Children will not be exposed to any higher levels of lead because of my amendment. The only change will be a reform of the bureaucratic hoops that small and home businesses have to jump through.
If you have any questions about the amendment please do not hesitate to contact Tom Jones (tom_jones AT commerce DOT senate DOT gov) with Senator DeMint at 202-224-6121.
I’m all for supporting everything DeMint introduces. The key is will the rest of congress follow suit? There are still many hurdles to get over to get any kind of proposed amendment passed. There are too many opposers (Waxman, et al) who think so illogically that if this passes, I will be very surprised. Too many congressmen afraid to stand up to the opposers, even after seeing how much this law is affecting our economy and is definitely not safe for the children or the general public at all. Will be supporting this all the way. E
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It is so disappointing that this bill finally made it out of committee, only to be voted down! Does anyone know, was there any debate on it on the floor? What type of arguments could someone actually make against it?
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