FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Pia Pialorsi
Monday, April 23,
2001 202-224-2670
107-38
Hearing on Booster Seats Set for Tuesday, April 24
The Consumer Subcommittee hearing "Booster Seats and the Forgotten Child:
Closing a Safety Gap" is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, at 10:00 a.m. in
room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building. Senator Peter Fitzgerald
(R-IL), Chairman of the Subcommittee, will preside. Members will examine
what measures may be needed to better protect children as they graduate
from child safety seats to adult seatbelts.
Following is the witness list (not necessarily in order of appearance):
Panel I
Mr. Robert Shelton Executive Director, National
Highway Safety Administration
Ms. Elaine Weinstein Acting Director, Office of Safety
Recommendations and Accomplishments, National Transportation Safety Board
Ms. Autumn Alexander Skeen Child Passenger Safety Advocate
Dr. Flaura Winston Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Dr. Kyran Quinlan Department of Pediatrics,
University of Chicago
Ms. Judith Lee Stone President, Advocates for Highway
and Auto Safety
Panel II
Ms. Heather Paul Executive Director, National SAFE
KIDS Campaign
Dr. Adrian K. Lund Chief Operating Officer, Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety
Mr. James Vondale Director, Automotive Safety Office,
Ford Motor Company
Mr. Tom Bologa President, Britax Child Safety, Inc.
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