CPSIA - things I'll miss

Whimsical Walney suggested that we list five things that we'll miss if the CPSIA goes into effect in the current form. Here's my list:

1. Old children's books (I collect Victorian and Edwardian children's works)
2. Handmade toys at local fairs
3. Old dolls (I know someone who restores them, or at least she used to)
4. Handmade dolls (I have some really cute ones from Louisiana)
5. Beginner's craft kits for cross-stitching, etc. (I learned to cross-stitch from a kit my Grandmother gave me)

Cleaning the House (and Senate)

Considering the interesting (I could use much stronger words) plans and legislation coming out of Washington these days, I'm wondering if it would be a good plan to vote EVERYBODY out of the House and Senate -- a COMPLETE turnover.

It obviously would take years to remove everybody from the Senate (and, in the meantime, the old members could infect the new ones with the same-old ways of doing things), but the House could be wiped clean in less than two years.

Of course, the bad side to this would be that some really good people would be voted out too. But, honestly, I'm so sick of what is going on that I'm tempted to think that almost anybody would be better than the folks up there now.

I'm willing to vote out my current "representatives" (who don't really represent me); is anybody else willing to do so as well?

CPSIA

I contacted my Senator about this law (which will have awful consequences to small businesses
around the nation and even the world), and got this response:

Thank you for contacting me regarding the impact of the Consumer
Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (H.R.4040) on certain
industries. I appreciate the benefit of your views on this important issue.


On August 14, 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
(CPSIA) was signed into law (P.L. 110-314). The testing and
certification requirements included in CPSIA now fall under the purview
of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). I've taken the liberty
of contacting CPSC officials on your behalf asking that they review your
concerns and get back to you directly.


Again, thank you for contacting me. As we move forward in the 111th
Congress, please continue to be in touch with your opinions and
concerns.


Well, if the Senator or his staff had bothered to actually READ my note,
he/they would have learned that Congress could do something about the
CPSIA: either support Jim DeMint's bill to reform the law, or come up
with legislation to revoke the CPSIA law.

The Senator's pass-the-buck attitude is not appreciated.