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ICPHSO 2025: State Regulation in Response to Trump’s Push for Federal Deregulation

Every year at the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO)’s annual symposium in Orlando, stakeholders, regulators, and other industry members gather to discuss emerging trends and issues around...more

K&L Gates LLP

Trump Administration Asserts Control Over Independent Agencies

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The Trump administration has taken two actions that will dramatically increase White House control over federal commissions, boards, and officials that were previously considered independent. These actions are likely to...more

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President Trump to Federal Agencies: “I’ve Got This”

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President Trump’s February 18th Executive Order entitled, “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” represents a sweeping effort to consolidate federal executive branch lawmaking power with the President. The Order’s...more

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An Executive Branch for the People, by the People: What the New Administration’s Executive Orders Mean for an Independent CPSC

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While independent regulatory agencies, like the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or the Commission), have typically considered themselves exempt from executive orders, recent events indicate the CPSC is likely not...more

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Peter A. Feldman Named Acting Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

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Commissioner Peter A. Feldman has been named Acting Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, effective January 22, 2025. Mr. Feldman is not a new face to the agency as he has held various positions within the...more

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White House Issues Executive Order Providing Agencies With Regulatory Enforcement Discretion To Promote Economic Recovery

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The Trump Administration issued its Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery (the “EO”) on May 19, 2020 (Executive Order). The EO seeks to remedy the economic impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...more

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Early Criticism Of President’s Nominee For CPSC Chair Neglects Much Of Beck’s Education And Background

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Around the time that much of the United States was beginning to shut down in response to COVID-19, President Trump nominated Dr. Nancy B. Beck for Commissioner and Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). A...more

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Trump’s pick as top consumer product watchdog? Chemical industry insider

President Trump has made it official: He intends to nominate Nancy B. Beck, a chemical industry insider and a scientist who built a record at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of scaling back safeguards against toxic...more

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Is This Seat Open? Nancy Beck Tapped To Chair CPSC

This week, President Trump announced that he intends to nominate Nancy Beck as Chair and Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The five-person CPSC has been short a member since the end of September...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

Commissioner Bob Adler Elected Vice-Chairman of the CPSC, Making Him Acting Chairman of the Agency

Late this afternoon it was confirmed that Commissioner Bob Adler was elected Vice-Chairman of the CPSC. Because there is no permanent CPSC Chairman at this time, Commissioner Adler will become the Acting Chairman of the...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle Withdraws Nomination, Announces Intent to Resign From CPSC, Effective October 27, 2019

In a press release this afternoon, Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle announced that she would be withdrawing her nomination to be the permanent Chairman of the CPSC, as well as her nomination for an additional 7 year term,...more

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Impact of Government Shutdown on Scope of FDA, FSIS, and CSPC Activities

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On December 22, 2018, funding expired for certain agencies within the federal government, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS),...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

Peter Feldman Confirmed as Fifth Commissioner at CPSC, Ushering in a Republican Majority for First Time Since 2006

This afternoon, Peter Feldman was confirmed by a vote of 80-19 to be a Commissioner for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for a term to end in October 2019. The Senate also voted along party lines to invoke cloture...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Peter Feldman Nominated as CPSC Commissioner; Confirmation Will Create Republican Majority on Commission

On June 4, President Trump nominated Peter Feldman as Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. As we previously reported, the recent Senate confirmation of Commissioner Dana Baiocco created a 2-2 split...more

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New Nomination Could Mean Partisan Tiebreaker for CPSC

On June 4th, President Trump nominated Peter Feldman to fill the fifth seat on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and serve out the remainder of prior Commissioner Joe Mohorovic’s vacated seven-year term...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

President Trump Nominates Peter Feldman as CPSC Commissioner Signaling First Republican Majority at Commission Since 2006

Yesterday, President Donald Trump nominated Peter Feldman to fill the fifth and final spot as Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The nomination is to fill the vacancy left by past Commissioner Joe...more

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Baiocco Confirmed as CPSC Commissioner

After months of anticipation, the U.S. Senate finally confirmed Dana Baiocco as a Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on May 22, 2018. President Trump first nominated Commissioner Baiocco on...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Confirmation of Dana Baiocco as CPSC Commissioner Ends Democrat Majority

Months after she was initially nominated, today the U.S. Senate confirmed Dana Baiocco (R) as the next CPSC Commissioner in a 50-45 vote, replacing Marietta Robinson (D), whose term expired in October 2017. Ms. Baiocco’s...more

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Nomination of a New Chairman at the CPSC

With the start of the new year, President Trump again nominated Republican Ann Marie Buerkle to chair the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Her expected confirmation will continue to push the CPSC in a more...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

President Trump Re-Nominates Ann Marie Buerkle For Permanent CPSC Chairman and Dana Baiocco as Commissioner

With Congress back in session, on January 8th President Trump was swift to re-nominate Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle to be the permanent Chairman of the CPSC, along with a nomination for a second term as a Commissioner. ...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Senate Returns Buerkle and Baiocco Nominations to White House, While the Temporary 3-1 Democratic Majority on the Commission...

As previously reported here, Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle has been awaiting Senate confirmation as permanent Chairman of the CPSC, and Jones Day litigator Dana Baiocco has been awaiting confirmation as the replacement...more

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New Vacancy at CPSC as Commissioner Joe Mohorovic Departs for Dentons

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Last week, CPSC Commissioner Joseph Mohorovic, one of the two Republicans on the five-person Commission, announced that he would be ending his term as Commissioner two years early to join the Federal Regulatory and Compliance...more

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Breaking: Republican Commissioner Mohorovic Departing the CPSC; Acting Chairman Buerkle Now Sole Republican in 3-1 Democratic...

This morning at the CPSC’s public hearing Commissioner Joe Mohorovic announced that he would be resigning from his position as a Commissioner, effective Friday, October 20th. Mohorovic announced that he would be joining the...more

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Buerkle Poised to Take Her Seat

On October 4, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved Ann Marie Buerkle’s (R-NY) nomination to the position of Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) after a two-day...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Dana Baiocco Nominated to Replace CPSC Commissioner Robinson

On September 21, 2017, President Trump nominated Dana Baiocco to replace Commissioner Marietta S. Robinson when her term at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) expires on October 26. Ms. Baiocco is a partner at...more

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