• Banning certain Phthalates. The Senate bill includes a provision eliminating phthalates in children’s products and child care articles, which will serve to significantly curb children’s routes of exposure to these potential reproductive system toxins. The House bill does not include this provision. • Strengthening All Terrain Vehicle Standard. We support strengthening the Senate provision that makes the voluntary standards for ATVs mandatory and requires those entities selling ATVs in the U.S. to be subject to ATV action plans. We support the inclusion of increased safety measures to make ATVs safer for all consumers. The House bill does not include an ATV provision. • Rejecting attempts to rewrite Third Party Testing Preemption. Industry is seeking now, at the eleventh hour, to add a new provision (not in either the House or Senate-passed bills) to prevent states from addressing new toy and product testing problems that could arise. We strongly oppose this effort. • Protecting employees who sound the alarm about unsafe consumer products. The Senate bill offers whistleblower protections; the House bill does not. Congress has a strong record of enacting laws that protect whistleblowers working for publicly traded corporations, in the nuclear power and nuclear weapons industries, and ground transportation workers. Those who protect us from unsafe consumer products should not fear retaliation from their employers. -30-