The President announced today that he will appoint Polly B. Baca to be Director and Paul Steven Miller to be Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs. The Office of Consumer Affairs is the primary Agency in the Federal Government for consumer affairs and has responsibility to both the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on this issue.
"We have a responsibility to the American people to ensure that they are treated fairly in the consumer marketplace," said the President. "I am counting on Polly Baca and Paul Miller to run this important office and to represent the needs of consumers throughout the Federal Government."
NOTE: Biographies of the appointees were made available by the Office of the Press Secretary.
William J. Clinton, Appointment for Posts at the United States Office of Consumer Affairs Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/220056