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	<title><![CDATA[New Leadership Needed at the Consumer Product Safety Commission]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-sherrod-brown/new-leadership-needed-at-_b_70949.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>This year our nation has witnessed recall after recall of contaminated products including toys, vitamins, pet food, and tires. Our fundamentally-flawed trade policy, mixed with a resistant consumer protection agency, has eroded nearly 40 years of safety standards in our nation -- safety standards that allowed parents to trust that their children's toys were lead free.</p>

<p>I am proud to cosponsor legislation authored by Senator Pryor that would strengthen the Consumer Protection Safety Commission -- the agency charged with keeping our...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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