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CPSIA Update: Support for Stay of Tracking Label Requirement

Rick Woldenberg of Learning Resources Inc., a leading advocate of reforming the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, enthusiastically endorses the NAM CPSC Coalition’s renewed request for a one-year stay of the CPSIA’s product tracking label requirements: In its letter, NAM called the lack of CPSC implementing guidance on tracking labels “an unconscionable dilemma for industry”. read more..

If FTC Regulates Blogger Conflict of Interest, What about the Post?

From (our new favorite) the Consumer Advertising Law Blog, “FTC Prepares to Crackdown on Conflicts of Interest in the Blogosphere“: Controversy is brewing over whether the FTC will exercise its enforcement discretion and go after bloggers for violations of the current testimonial guides or the revised testimonial guides once they are approved (likely later this summer). read more..

CPSIA Update: A New Request for Stay on Labeling Requirement

In light of the arrival of new CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum, the National Association of Manufacturers and the CPSC Coalition have submitted another request for an emergency, one-year stay of enforcement of Section 103 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) which requires a new tracking label for children’s products made on or after read more..

Manufacturing Activity Improves for 6th Straight Month in June

Regarding the Institute for Supply Management’s June report on manufacturing:  Today’s report indicates that the manufacturing recession could end sometime in the second half of the year. The fact that the overall PMI index improved for a sixth consecutive month in June is significant.  After bottoming out at 32.9 last December, the PMI Index rose to a level of 44.8 read more..

California, Here We Come…NOOOOOOO!

From The Examiner, taken aback (as were we) by the President’s recent remarks holding up California as a model of energy conservation and economic leadership. From today’s editorial, “California here we come“: While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address read more..

Stimuluzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Many manufacturers and NAM member companies have been disappointed by the slow and weak impact the stimulus measure — which the NAM supported — has had on the economy. (See this post.) The goal was both immediate stimulus (a la shovel-ready) AND dollars spent on investments that would strengthen U.S. competitiveness, especially infrastructure. Now MSNBC provides some numbers read more..

An Illustrious Day, July 1

To our Canadian friends, Happy Dominion Day! To Walter Olson, happy 10th anniversary of Overlawyered.com, the Web’s single most effective puncher-of-holes in the excesses of the litigation industry. UPDATE (1:20 p.m.): Back from the Canadian Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue, the nicest piece of real estate in Washington. That’s Ambassador Michael Wilson talking about the U.S.-Canada alliance, partnership, read more..

Card Check: Employees Who Don’t Want to Be Unionized

If you’re out and about over the Independence Day holiday — attending a Fourth of July parade, perhaps — and you spot a member of Congress, be sure to let him or her know why the Employee Free Choice Act will harm employers, employees and the right NOT to be unionized. Here’s an NAM-produced video about read more..

‘Black Shirts’ - Just Words or Scripted Talking Points for VP Biden?

We took note last week of Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks to the political and legislative conference of the Communications Workers of America, checking to see what he had to say about the Employee Free Choice Act. (Transcript.) Amid the expected exhortation, one phrase jumped out when the Vice President attacked union opponents generally and the read more..