Position: Secretary - Education

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Inez Tenenbaum

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• Summer message from officials, Y: learn to pool safely
  For a brief moment, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett was at a loss for words.
• Ledyard mother: Happy Meal toy endangered son
  A promotional McDonald's Happy Meal toy that a 4-year-old boy in Ledyard allegedly put around his neck and nearly fainted from last month is now the subject of a federal investigation and an alert to parents from the Connecticut chief of consumer protection.
• DPC Commissioner: McDonald's Toy Dangerous
  A 4-year-old boy began to lose consciousness after getting a toy received in a McDonald's Happy Meal wrapped around his neck, according to Department of Consumer Protection officials.
• CT wants Happy Meal' toy off the market
  Connecticut's consumer protection chief is asking the federal government to act quickly to remove from circulation a McDonald's Happy Meal toy that he claims nearly strangled a Connecticut boy and that his own son had one.
• Fill out registration cards to be notified of baby product recalls
  Manufacturers not allowed to use information for marketing purposes Here's a task that new parents should tackle after the baby shower but before the thank-you notes: Fill out product registration cards.
• McDonalds defends Happy Meal toy that is under investigation
  As a federal consumer agency investigates the potential strangulation hazard of a McDonalds Happy Meal toy used to promote the film The Last Airbender, McDonalds has
• New urgency for baby safety
  Since the birth of his daughter three months ago, John Lin has made countless last-minute runs to the baby store - often late at night - for everything from diaper cream to breast milk containers. As a new father, making even simple purchases can be intimidating, especially when it feels as if the health and comfort of his family is at stake, Lin says. At a time when he's sleep-deprived and ...
• Safety regulators have new urgency over baby products
  The chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Inez Tenenbaum, says she wants to make it easier for parents to have confidence in their purchases.
• New rules to smooth recalls of faulty cribs, other nursery gear
  When the rail of a Playskool Travel-Lite crib came down on 16-month-old Danny Keysar, a black cloud fell over his parents. Now 12 years after his preventable death, the cloud is still there, Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar said. But new federal requirements designed to facilitate nursery equipment recalls have let a chink of light seep in.
• Off-Road Vehicle Rules Remain U.S. Priority, Consumer Safety Chief Says
  A bid by makers of recreational off- road vehicles to beef up safety wont deter the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission from pursuing a plan proposed nine months ago to write rules, Chairman Inez Tenenbaum said.