Joan Claybrook
Joan Claybrook
Joan Claybrookis an American lawyer who served as President of Public Citizen from 1982 until she announced her resignation on December 9, 2008. Previously, she was head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationin the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981...
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A very awesome responsibility. We're quite concerned that she's never done anything regulatory. ... She hasn't done any policy work.
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This bill is a sham because the House leadership does not want real ethics and lobbying reform. They aren't rock stars, but they want the luxury trappings to be showered with lobbyists' money and entertainment, and flown around on corporate jets above the fray of security lines, delayed flights and missed connections.
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We are here today to expose one of the biggest con jobs in recent history.
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House leaders are trying to trick voters into thinking that the leadership is addressing the problem. Voters should not be fooled. This is not real reform.
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I don't think this one is going to go away. Members of Congress know they are going to face this issue in November.
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Cars are mobile. It's a relatively ridiculous system to allow partial recalls. It's a financial issue. Recalls are expensive, and automakers don't want to do them.
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It means these vehicles (light trucks) are permanently on the highway unless the public doesn't want to buy them.
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It's more accurate to say that this increases the safety dangers.
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It is the most important thing for children, whether it is an air-bag car or non-air-bag car, that the child be in the back seat.
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It's virtually a nothing burger. This proposal is useless.
There's a lot of push-back going on right now.
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They certainly raise questions about how far Bush went to help Enron and what other favors he might have done.
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The cutting out of the Office of Public Integrity really undermines this whole effort.
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There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.