Response to RFC is done!

[Kathleen F.]

Okay! Our response to the RFC is ready! Members can access it here. Please review it quickly, time is of the essence.

Caveats: I apologize in advance that this document is in a member's only location but we had one "enterprising guest" who went and plastered the web with the RFC response we'd done in the other RFC folder and insult to injury, she didn't even link to us or mention who wrote it. Even worse, she substituted sections of our verbiage with stupidity and then invited the web to mail it in to the CPSC. You might think that is no big deal in the interests of the greater good but the problem is, if the CPSC has gotten hundreds of these with our original verbiage and found them stupid, they'll just toss ours into the same trash thinking it's yet another one of those who cribbed from us and mangled it.

[Kathleen F.]

UPDATE Again (1/31/09): Our RFC has been received by mail in Bethesda so I've uploaded the document. This version is slightly different from the one I'd uploaded previously so you might want to look it over.

There is a watermark on it saying Do Not Mail or Distribute. I can't figure out how to remove it. Feel free to pass it around to whomever you think would be interested in it.

If you are curious as to how the CPSC processes the submissions they get and writes a report from them, here's a sample of a report the CPSC put out regarding the RFC for civil penalties.

One final observation. I'd bet wads of cash that you all have learned more about politics and legislative processes in the past three months than you ever did in Gov 101. I know I have.