Following the defeat of two pro-consumer amendments Thursday, and plagued by a rolling series of interruptions caused by floor votes, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) suspended consideration of HR 4040, to reform the CPSC. The measure is scheduled to be put back before the committee Tuesday. We lost important amendments to strengthen the bill's lead standard (Eshoo-D-CA) and subject fixed site amusement park rides to CPSC oversight (Markey-D-MA), with the committee leadership, Dingell and subcommittee chair Bobby Rush (D-IL) continuing to honor their pledge that they and Republican leaders Joe Barton (R-TX) and Cliff Stearns (R-FL) would only vote as a block. They all opposed the amendments. We continue to look for ways to get a final CPSC reform bill before the President before Christmas, but time is running out.