More money to monitor kids' toys

For parents who track these things, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the government agency responsible for making sure toys sold here aren't tainted with lead, is getting a big funding increase for fiscal 2008 that should help it do a better job.

Under an appropriations bill passed by Congress today, the CPSC will get $80 million next year, $17 million more than it got this year. According to a Chicago Tribune article, that's the biggest budget hike for the agency in 30 years.