Panel Rejects Ford Nominee to Consumer Safety Post
The Senate Commerce Committee voted to reject President Ford’s choice of John Byington for a seven year term as chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Ford withdrew the nomination and signaled a renomination for a shorter term. Byington, 38, a lawyer and pharmacist, served as assistant consumer affairs adviser in the White House and was a former aide in Michigan politics.
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Congress Watch
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Michigan
L. William Seidman
Michigan Comunications Corporation
Deodorants drop zirconium amid safety concerns
Procter & Gamble and Carter-Wallace will remove zirconium from Sure, Secret, and Arrid XX aerosols after monkey studies showed lung damage and an FDA ban proposal. About 340 million deodorants sold yearly may be affected. shipments of non zirconium sprays start within a week as reformulations proceed. FDA support is tentative but the change preempts potential regulation.
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Food and Drug Administration
New York
Panel Approves Hawkins Bill on Right to Work
The House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill establishing the right to employment with a 25 to 10 vote. It aims to reduce unemployment to 3 percent within four years, calls for centralized planning, and faces likely veto by President Ford. The measure, led by Rep. Augustus Hawes and Sen. Hubert Humphrey, would fund startup planning with 50 million dollars and seek coordinated government and private sector job growth.
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Federal Reserve
Moves to close rural post offices attacked
Fourteen congressmen condemned the Postal Service plan to shut down rural post offices that operate at a deficit. They urged reversal and argued the closures would hurt small communities and hamper mail service.
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Seattle lauded for austerity in federal budget talk
SAN FRANCISCO AP The U S Treasury undersecretary Edwin Al Yeo Il praised Seattle for avoiding fiscal disaster by biting the budgetary bullet amid aerospace cutbacks in the late 1960s. He spoke at a Municipal Financial Officers Association meeting about erosion of job and tax bases and the city’s restraint without more federal funds. Rep Tom Harkin and Rep Don Fuqua criticized federal presence and postal service factors as rural concerns grew. A hearing was scheduled with 18 more members to protest the Postal Service.
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