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2 Minutes Read During the national anthem, US President Joe Biden places his hand over his heart, as he hosts a naturalization ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 2021. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters (Source: Reuters) According to the White House, President Joe Biden intends to appoint a senior legal for a House of Representatives committee to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), as well as a lawyer from the agency for another commissioner post. Biden revealed late Friday that he intends to propose Alexander Hoehn-Saric, a Democrat who now serves as general counsel for the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and consumer protection, to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The proposed nominations were first reported by Reuters. Hoehn-Saric focuses on product safety, consumer protection, and communications legislation and monitoring. According to the White House, the Democratic president also intends to name Mary Boyle to the commission. She is the current executive director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and has held key positions at the agency for more than a decade. In a statement, Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell said, “American families need a strong cop on the beat at the Consumer Product Safety Commission,” adding that Hoehn-Saric, who is also a former Senate Commerce Committee senior counsel, “has been at the forefront of the fight for a strong CPSC to protect consumers, children, and families from dangerous products.” In a report released in December 2019, Senate Democrats claimed that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was improperly deferential to the corporations it investigates. The Senate Commerce Committee report stated that the commission’s settlements under Republican then-President Donald Trump “are at odds with traditional recall agreements negotiated by the CPSC.” “Rather than giving consumers with a precise remedy that repairs all impacted products or a reimbursement to remove the unsafe products from their homes,” the research concluded, “many recalls perversely operate as marketing vehicles to allow the recalling business to sell further products.”/nRead More

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