Nancy Nord Responds to Sen Durbin’s Letter

Click here to read Nancy Nord’s response to Senator Durbin’s letter of March 27th.

Durbin Blasts CPSC Chair for Recent Comments on Criticizing New Consumer Safety Laws

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) sent a letter to Nancy Nord, Acting Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today, expressing concern over recent public comments Nord has made that are critical of new legislation and show her continued resistance to modernizing the much maligned agency.

“Recent comments you have made in the press and in letters to Congress regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) show your continued resistance to modernizing your agency and addressing the genuine public concern over unsafe products,” Durbin wrote. You accused a law that significantly strengthens the Commission’s hand as having “taken away our responsibility to look at the risks and make judgments about what is or isn’t safe for American consumers.” You have also agreed with the appalling implication that the law is responsible for the deaths and serious injuries of children who ride adult ATVs and motorbikes. Noticeably absent from the majority of your public remarks is an emphasis on protecting consumer safety, which happens to be the mission of the agency you lead. Your recent comments make clear that your misguided personal views have not changed, even if they contradict the mission of the agency that you lead and the President that you now serve.”

For more about this letter, go to Senator Durbin’s site and scroll down below the above excerpt.