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http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071101/cm_usatoday/ourviewonprotectingthepublicregulatorsslumberlettinghealthandsafetysuffer;_ylt=Am7ny2eyZzJwb.k5XJe6uzWs0NUEOur view on protecting the public: Regulators slumber, letting health and safety suffer
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The best gauge of how any administration regards regulation is whoit picks to fill key regulatory positions. In the Bush administration,too many of those appointments have been the equivalent of hiring foxesto guard henhouses.
At the Consumer Product Safety Commission, embattled acting chairman Nancy Nord worked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's oldest and largest business group, before she got the CPSC job. President Bush tried, but failed, to appoint a lobbyist from the National Association of Manufacturers to join Nord at the CPSC.
At the Mine Safety and Health Administration, Richard Stickler's ties to the coal industry so worried the Senate that it rejected his nomination to head the agency. Bush bypassed Congress by using his power to appoint Stickler during a congressional recess.