and marie burkel. i'd also like to say that yesterday during the standing ovation was very impressed. [ applause ]. every panel that i went to cheryl was introducing the speaker and moderating the panel. your questions were so thoughtful and incisive. you brought out the best in the speakers. terrific panel tonight. and i give you great credit for that. turning now to anne-marie. she's had a distinguished career. as a nurse for 22 years and then graduating from law school while raising six children. i think she has a 17 grandchildren now. as a lawyer she served as an assistant new york state attorney general for 13 years before running and winning a seat in the u.s. house of representatives. she joined the commission in 2013. and in feruary 2017 she was voted in unanimously as the act team chair, and last year president donald trump nominated her to be permanent chair. she has been my esteemed friend and colleague for the past five years. notwithstanding the fact that she and i almost never vote the sa

with great pleasure i present acting cpsc chair, ann mararie burkel. >> thank you for that kind introduction. as bob pointed out, while we disagree on many issues, we have found a way to have a civil and substantive discussion about these issues. i think that's a lesson we could really carry across washington and across the country. but no one is going to ever agree with anyone on everything. that's just how life is. being able to discuss it and continue to move the ball forward, in particular when you're talking about consumer safety, that kind of conversation is critical. and so i so appreciate bob, his thoughtfulness, his love of the agency. his concern for the integrity of the agency. and his willingness to never and i mean never put himself first. and so we share that. and that's where we start from and it has been my five years at cpse have been really wonderful five years because of bob adler. he has been a true friend. truth be known, we love our steak dinners. i think that's what our true bond is. i want to begin by thanking the consumer federation of america for this opportunity to

commission certainly doesn't have the ability to issue recalls and as we heard from acting chairwoman burkels morning the cpsc doesn't see at least at this point that it's within its remit to deal with these kinds of security issues which could actually put children physically in danger. so what to do about this. one thing that's happening, justin, is that consumers union has launched a new program to test and report on the privacy and security of these kinds of internet-connected devices. so can you tell us why cu started the digital standards program, how it works and what you've found so far? >> yeah, so it was really more about consumer reports. so consumer union is the advocacy and policy wing but consumer reports has an 80 hundred year history of testing products and looking at tvs do they work, are they good, cars especially, a lot of people rely on cr for cars. so we're really good at evaluating products but now products have new dimensions, internet connected, other things to be worried about. are there data security concerns? so about a year ago the organization put out this digita

commission certainly doesn't have the ability to issue recalls and as we heard from acting chairwoman burkels morning, the cpsc doesn't see at least at this point that it's within its remit to deal with these kinds of security issues which could actually put children physically in danger. so what to do about this. one thing that's happening, justin, is that consumers union has launched a new program to test and report on the privacy and security of these kinds of internet connected devices. so can you tell us why cu started the digital standards program, how it works and what you found so far? >> yeah, so it was really, my en, more about consumer reports. so consumers the advocacy and policy wing, but consumer reports has an 80 hundred year history of testing products, looking at tvs, cars especially. so we're really good at evaluating products, but now a lot of products had these new dimensions, they're internet connected, other things to be worried about, not just how well does the car different, are there data security concerns. about a year ago the organization put out this digital stand