We testified today before the Consumer Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a series of product safety bills. At the last minute, the acting chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Nancy Nord, refused to testify because she wasn't given her own personal panel and would have had to sit at the same table as me and Sally Greenberg of Consumers Union. When the perceived trappings of high government officialdom are more important to an official than what subcommittee chair Bobby Rush justly called "doing the people's business," there is something very wrong.