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Pelosi Calls for CSPC Head's Resignation

Tuesday October 30, 2007 7:16 PM

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday
called for the resignation of the head of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission following the millions of recalls of
Chinese-made toys.

Nancy Nord, the agency's acting head, has been under fire in
Congress for opposing Democrats' legislation to expand her
agency's budget and work.

“Any commission chair who does not, in the face of the facts
that are so clear, say we don't need any more authority or any
more resources to do our job, does not understand the gravity
of the situation,” said Pelosi, who has been joined in her
call for Nord's resignation by other Democrats in the House and
Senate. “I call on the president of the United States to ask
for the resignation.”

Nord, in an Oct. 24 letter to the Senate Commerce Committee,
said a Democratic bill that would expand her agency “could have
the unintended consequence of hampering, rather than furthering,
consumer product safety.”

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