Host Richard Morrison welcomes guest co-hosts Michelle Minton and Lee Doren to Episode 59 of the LibertyWeek podcast. This week we take a detour from the usual format and focus on the upcoming 9/12 March on Washington, where thousands of Americans from across the country will converge on Capitol Hill to protest record levels of government spending and borrowing. The demonstration is about defending our liberty and about restoring our Constitution by reducing the size and scope of the federal government.

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Check out Andrew Langer’s excellent piece in today’s Roll Call addressing challenges for the potential new chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CEI has pointed out in the past how misguided CPSC regulations are often counter-productive, and we have commented before the agency about its misuse of science.

Today, Andrew, who heads the Institute for Liberty, highlights how Congress is making the problem even worse with more misguided mandates for CPSC to enforce, particularly regulations on phthalates. This is an issue…

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