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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The shame of this situation is that both Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone have known about this problem for eight years, ... The companies have settled a number of lawsuits under gag orders, which prohibited the lawyers or victims in the cases from talking about them. As a result, safety officials and the public have been kept in the dark.
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Her efforts to limit lawsuits and access to the courts are troubling,
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I believe this bill was crippled without it. It's not a law without an enforcement system.
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These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.
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These documents suggest that Bush was acting as promoter in chief for Enron and its business interests at a time when he was getting ready to raise money for his run for president,
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Right now, they're going to stop $50 meals, but they are still able to throw these elaborate convention parties that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in honor of a congressman.
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Electing Representative Blunt means choosing more of the same corruption plaguing the system now.
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The 46 deaths that have been reported are only those that are known publicly,
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Certainly it is something that could be done at the state level.
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This report exposes one of the biggest con jobs in recent history. This long-running, secretive campaign funded by some of the country's wealthiest families has relied on deception to bamboozle the public not only about who must pay the estate tax, but about how repealing it will affect the country.
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It's more accurate to say that this increases the safety dangers.
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It's virtually a nothing burger. This proposal is useless.
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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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They certainly raise questions about how far Bush went to help Enron and what other favors he might have done.