DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A face that is familiar to consumers across America apparently has plans to leave public service. Let's check in with our Major Garrett at the White House. Major, good morning.</s>MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn. The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Ann Brown, announced this morning here in Washington, she will resign her post effective November 1st, or if in fact President Bush nominates a new commissioner to head that agency and that commissioner is approved by the Senate before November 1st, her resignation will become effect on that date. This is all part of a rather intense struggle that's been going on between the Bush White House and Senate Democrats over the leader of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The president had originally reported a woman named Mary Sheila Gall, who was sitting on the commission, to be the new commissioner. But Senate Democrats sitting on the Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over this agency, said that she was too business, and pointed to some decisions she had made while sitting on the commission that they thought were not nearly as protective for children. For example, there was a dispute over a baby bath seat. Mary Sheila Gall thought that the seat itself was not defective, and many of the injuries and the deaths that occurred through use of this bay bath seat were due to the parents leaving children unattended, something the baby bath seats say on the label do not do. Nonetheless, Senate Democrats lined up in a party-line vote against Mary Sheila Gall. That happened just before Congress left for the summer recess. After that, Senate Republicans and White House lawyers had been reviewing the president's options to see if they could remove Ann Brown by themselves, without the Senate's confirmation. Ann Brown has decided not to face that confrontation. She will leave November 1st from the Consumer Products Safety Commission -- Daryn.</s>KAGAN: Major Garrett at the White House. Major, thank you -- Leon. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Ann Brown to Resign as Head of Consumer Product Safety Commission