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L-3 | February 2009

URGENT CALL TO ACTION

Please Contact Your Two U.S. Senators Immediately and Voice Your SUPPORT for Senator DeMint’s “Delay” Amendment
We need you to speak out again!

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is expected to offer tomorrow (Thursday, February 5) an amendment to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 that will provide needed relief to the CPSIA requirements.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved its version of The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 last week. The Senate will be taking action this week on their version of this legislation.

“The DeMint Delay” would amend the stimulus package by postponing for six months implementation requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) that are now scheduled to go into effect next Tuesday, February 10.

Please call and fax your Senators to express your support for the Amendment:
  • Follow the link provided
  • Enter your zip code
  • On the left-hand column in the display results, click on the Senator’s name
  • When the profile page loads, click on the second tab at the top (contact info) for phone and fax numbers

PHONE CALLS
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We encourage your support of Senator DeMint’s Amendment because:
  • On February 10th the current CPSIA deadline could force millions of safe products off retail shelves, thousands of small businesses to close their doors and countless jobs lost.

  • As the law now stands, there are too many ambiguities . . . and those ambiguities cannot be clarified by next Tuesday. No one knows how to implement the law as it is written. The guesswork needs to be removed from our product safety laws.

  • Senator DeMint’s amendment will give the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) the time it needs to provide necessary compliance information and guidance...and prevents the loss of thousands of companies and jobs.

  • Support this amendment and you will save jobs in our state.
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