Washington NewsletterAugust 2011Perilous Times?Back when I was growing up, there was a TV show called Beat the Clock where contestants tried to perform some sort of stunt while a large clock ticked off the seconds. If you beat the clock, you won a cash prize or a consumer product. If you didn't beat the clock, you went home empty handed. |
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United States Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced an amendment to S. 493 (a small business program reauthorization bill) that would exempt youth sized all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and dirt bikes from the lead provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). |
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Call Your Representative Now!The Kids Just Want to Ride Act is set to be introduced next week by Representative Denny Rehberg (MT) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) strongly supports the Kids Just Want to Ride Act and is urging everyone to call their Representative to become an original cosponsor. |
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March 2010Monumental Problem!A couple of weeks ago, word leaked out about a secret, internal study, ordered by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Salazar, on potential areas that could be declared National Monuments under the Antiquities Act. An Interior Department spokesperson described the list of 17 hot spots as something that came out a brainstorming session held at the department. What a session! Under the Antiquities Act, Mr. Obama could make such a declaration with the simple stroke of his Presidential pen. |
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Many off-highway motorized trails in America's national forests could deteriorate dramatically or even disappear under the new federal budget for 2011 proposed by President Barack Obama to Congress on Feb. 1. Under the proposal, which must by accepted by Congress before it becomes law, funding for the U.S. Agriculture Department's Capital Improvement and Maintenance (CIM) program would be slashed by $100 million from the $538 million appropriated for the current fiscal year, which began October 1, to $438 million for the next fiscal year. |
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AMA Urges Action to Prevent Trail Funding From Being Slashed in Budget President's Budget Proposal Would Slash Trail Funding |
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From a press release issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)... WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously (5-0) to extend a stay of enforcement on testing and certification of many regulated children’s products. While enforcement of specific CPSC testing requirements has been stayed, the products must still comply with all applicable rules and bans. |
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Out with the Old... In with the New The Obama Administration took swift action on June 17 replacing the current Chief of the Forest Service, Gail Kimbell. The Secretary of Agriculture announced the appointment of a new Chief and in the concluding sentence of the press announcement, thanked Chief Kimbell for her service. Kimbell, in an email to her colleagues at the Forest Service, said that the news of her dismissal was "sudden." She said simply, "the Administration wanted to make a change." It did so by appointing Tom Tidwell to assume her post. |
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission's acting chairman told her compliance staff Friday not to enfore, for now, rules limiting sales of youth-model all-terrain vehicles that have lead in concealed parts. Go to the WSJ Online for more information. |
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