Update: A House bill has now been introduced too.
One of my earliest posts on this blog was called “Here’s a Law We Don’t Need,” and it mocked a bill to ban novelty lighters. A follow-up was called “Senate Joins Anti-Novelty Lighter Crusade.”
Well? Congress is baaack! And a new bill to control the [...]
In a post I titled “Here’s a Law We Don’t Need,” I recently wrote about a bill introduced in the House to ban novelty lighters. A bill to do the same thing has now been introduced in the Senate.
As I said at the time (hey, quoting beats writing!):
And that’s why we have “parents.” To tell [...]
In my continuing quest to turn up the most essential legislative issues, I bring you . . .
H.R. 6488, to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a final consumer product safety rule banning novelty lighters.
With energy prices soaring, a war in Iraq, and a humanitarian crisis in Darfur, we really should think [...]