Outreach to the Senate regarding Tenenbaum confirmation hearing on June 16th
Published June 10, 2009 @ 06:03PM PT
HEARING ADVISORY:
NOMINATION HEARING
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces the following full committee hearing:
Nomination Hearing
Full Committee
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Hearing Start Time: 10:30 a.m.
Press Pre-Set Time: 9:45 a.m.
Location: Room 253, Russell Senate Office Building
Nominee:
Inez M. Tenenbaum, to Chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
We need to contact our ALL of our Senators (the hearing will take place in the Senate) NOW regarding Tenenbaum's confirmation hearing as chairperson of the CPSC, requesting that they pose questions for us at the hearing. Here are suggested questions:
1. Do you believe that you can apply risk assessment principles to the CPSIA as it is currently written? If the answer is yes, then I would like to ask what specific areas of the CPSIA are able to utilize risk assessment. If the answer is no, then I would like to know if a technical amendment to the CPSIA that specifically utilizes risk assessment is something Ms. Tenenbaum would consider.
2. Would you be willing to work with the Handmade Toy Alliance to outreach and educate small businesses throughout the country how to work within and understand the CPSIA?
The Commerce committee will be holding the hearing on June 16th. Therefore, if your Senator is on the Commerce Committe, he/she will have the best chance of posing a question. The Republicans will be asking the hard questions, so they are truly our allies in this part of the game. The Senators on the Commerce Committee are as follows:
John Rockefeller (chair) D-WV
Daniel Inouye D-HI
John Kerry D-MA
Byron Dorgan D-ND
Barbara Boxer D-CA
Bill Nelson D-FL
Maria Cantwell D-WA
Frank Lautenberg D-NJ
Mark Pryor D-AR
Claire McCaskill D-MO
Amy Klobuchar D-MN
Tom Udall D-NM
Mark Warner D-VA
Mark Begich D-AK
Kay Bailey Hutchison (ranking member) R-TX
Olympia Snowe R-ME
John Ensign R-NV
Jim DeMint R-SC
John Thune R-SD
Roger Wicker R-MS
Johnny Isakson R-GA
David Vitter R-LA
Sam Brownback R-KS
Mel Martinez R-FL
Mike Johanns R-NE
Daniel Inouye D-HI
John Kerry D-MA
Byron Dorgan D-ND
Barbara Boxer D-CA
Bill Nelson D-FL
Maria Cantwell D-WA
Frank Lautenberg D-NJ
Mark Pryor D-AR
Claire McCaskill D-MO
Amy Klobuchar D-MN
Tom Udall D-NM
Mark Warner D-VA
Mark Begich D-AK
Kay Bailey Hutchison (ranking member) R-TX
Olympia Snowe R-ME
John Ensign R-NV
Jim DeMint R-SC
John Thune R-SD
Roger Wicker R-MS
Johnny Isakson R-GA
David Vitter R-LA
Sam Brownback R-KS
Mel Martinez R-FL
Mike Johanns R-NE
If you see any of your members of the Senate listed above and need contact info for the appropriate person in their office, please post a comment and we will get you the appropriate contact information. We need to have them ask our questions. We will help you in anyway we can to connect with the right person.
This is our best chance to be heard before Tenenbaum is placed at the CPSC. Let's make ourselves heard and loudly! :-) Please let us know if you need help!
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Jill Chuckas
- Stamford, CT
