nominated by President Donald Trump to become CPSC chairman. During her term as chair, enforcement actions declined and the number of product recalls was the lowest in a decade. On June 18, 2019, Buerkle withdrew her nominations to become the full-time chairman and to an additional four-year term, following accusations of incompetence and mismanagement surrounding a 2019 data breach, candor to Congress concerns, and controversy over a settlement that avoided the recall of unsafe strollers. Electoral history See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links CPSC biography 1951 births 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians American nurses American women lawyers American women nurses Female members of the United States House of Representatives Housewives Lawyers from Syracuse, New York Le Moyne College alumni Living people New York (state) lawyers Politicians from Syracuse, New York Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Syracuse University College of Law alumni U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission personnel Women in New York (state) politics American people of Italian descent