I have written and blogged about the extent to which
excessive rulemaking at the CPSC has led to job-killing overregulation to US
business. Unfortunately this Commission’s partisan rulemaking has
destroyed businesses, undermined job growth, reduced the choice American
consumers have in the market, raised prices and made some products less
durable.
In 2011, both Congress and the President called for
cost-benefit analyses and reduction in burdensome rulemaking, yet the CPSC
majority finalized some of our most costly rules ever. In that regard, I would
like to share with you a recent editorial I wrote for The Ripon Forum entitled
"The Assault on American Competitiveness." This article focuses on the “rush to
regulate” as the term of one of the Democrat Commissioners and, thus the
Democrat majority, came to an end.
I urge you to read the article to gain
some insight into the
challenges we face here at the Commission and the impact these regulations are
having on American manufacturers.
If you wish to respond, you may contact me either on my blog or by emailing me
at commissioner_northup@cpsc.gov.
