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Last night Congress passed and sent to the President for signature legislation amending the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). While this Congressional action is long overdue, the question I have is: will this agency implement the new law with more common sense than we used before Congress acted?

As I thought about how we will act in the future, I recalled two notes that I recently received that moved me greatly. They each share themes â€" both letters relate how our CPSIA regulations are forcing small companies, making perfectly safe products, to shut their doors; and both authors are mothers.

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