ms. tenenbaum here. she is a real breath of fresh air. i am glad that the white house saw fit to nominate her. i knew that we were in pretty good shape when the day she was announced we had several consumer groups as well as several business groups who came out in support of her. she also has the encouragement and support efforts to home state senators, and we all know on this committee, we understand the trials and tribulations of the cpsc over the last few years. i think just in layman's terms what is happened is this cpsc is that its budget cut in dwindling resources as challenges have increase, and when we saw this huge influx of products that were manufactured overseas, most notably china but from a lot of places overseas, the cpsc quite frankly was not able to keep pace with that, and was overwhelmed. and, we have been working on this over the last couple of years in this committee. we were able to pass the bill last year, passed overwhelmingly, went through both houses, went through conference. in fortunately sins that bill's best

ms. tenenbaum, you can give the answer for the record because i don't want to hold everything up.i strongly believe one of the problems is in the past there has not been enough, and work in coordination of all multiple involved agencies like international trade commission customs, u.s. -- ustr in your soon-to-be working for practical result. for instance the chinese drywall, at the end of the day if the only action is some sort of class-action suit against some shell entity in china which is qassam hour of the chinese government that goes and their litigation and takes years and years more that's not a solution. that's not a good result. that's maybe making some lawyers busy, but it's not helping the victims. really what has to happen is for this to be a priority of the u.s. government including ustr, everybody who deals weekly with china to get a practical resolution and have the victim's reimbursed in a whole and quick way and i just ask for the record your response to that idea and how would you work toward that sort of practical bottom-line result. thank you. >> thank you, sym

ms. tenenbaum for your willingness to take on this assignment. in -- we and our professional lives here have a chance to any candidates for office that are recommended and it is so nice very frankly when we have someone who is here presenting themselves to a committee to have the kind of background that you have which is i think privately sudan to taking the responsibility that you are about to take and i noticed the that you and i are focused on the quality of life for children. in that is really a principal focus for this consumer product safety commission. one of the things that we have seen happening now is that there is a focus on toy guns. news reports have shown the popularity among children with toy guns that look like real ak-47 or other assault rifles. as a matter of fact, in some instances young people have been killed@@@@@ , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ >> severely injured due to a crib that had collapsed. oddly enough, my wife's daughter, my stepdaughter had a baby and she is just turning a year old and i was with her this weekend. and she was

ms. tenenbaum. >> thank you, and i appreciate you being here and i appreciate your question.if i am confirmed as the chairman if confirmed to implement rules and regulations and issue guidance pursuant to the ec psa as soon as possible. the phones are ringing off the hook because there are unanswered questions about how certain sections of bill ball will be interpreted and what industries are supposed to do. consumer advocacy groups are concerned. everyone needs to know what the road map is going to look like. i have found in implementing legislation in south carolina and year after year once the comprehensive legislature is past you have lots of pushback and people concerned because of unanswered questions. as soon as you can put in place the regulation, the guidance and train people and answer the unanswered questions the sooner people that the phone calls by down and get about the business of implementing the act and that is my goal. >> that's terrific. for the librarians and thrift store operators and the bumper folks that want with their 80 fees' in missouri, thank you f