Washington, D.C. (InvestigateTV) — Kipley Haugen started preparing her speech weeks ago. It was to be the most important of the 8-year-old’s life: imploring federal safety regulators to protect other kids from a toy that, in her words, “hurted me.”

But a directive by the White House in May to fire the three Democrats on the 5-member U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission not only derailed Kipley’s plan, it also has left an untold number of proposed safety rules in limbo and a meeting to discuss annual priorities was postponed for three months.

Infant rockers and baby neck floats, table saws and portable generators, window coverings and water beads were among many products under review by the CPSC at the time of the administration’s actions, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of Fede

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