Public Citizen Urges Congress to Make Cars Safer for Kids
by Matthew Madia, 3/1/2007
Yesterday, Joan Claybrook, president of the public interest group Public Citizen, testified before a Senate subcommittee on vehicle safety for children. Claybrook urged Congress and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to improve vehicle safety in an effort to reduce the number of children killed in vehicle related accidents — currently about five per day.
Claybrook also chided the Bush administration for renominating Susan Dudley to be the White House's regulatory czar. As OMB Watch has pointed out numerous times (here, here, and here), Dudley's views are not consistent with those of the public and her installation would likely cause unprecedented rollbacks in health and safety regulations.
Read more about Claybrook's testimony here.
