Obama to Nominate New Head of Consumer Safety

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Source: Nytimes

WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Inez Moore Tenenbaum, South Carolina’s former school superintendent, to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the White House announced on Tuesday.

Mr. Obama also is asking that the troubled agency, which has been criticized as being too close to corporate America, receive $107 million — a 71 percent increase since fiscal 2007, the statement said.

Mr. Obama pledged during the campaign that he would double the agency’s financing; the budget request, the White House said, would get him three quarters of the way there if Congress approves it.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/us/politics/06consumer.html?ref=politics

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Nice ... I think the post should be elevated to a cabinet level position and should have a major say.


That will be guaranteed to burn up republicans