Polyester curtains, a redwood deck...and a weather radio

Congressman Spencer Bachus (R.-Vestavia Hills Country Club) wants the federal nanny to be queen of every double-wide trailer in America.

(B'ham News) WASHINGTON - All new manufactured homes would have to come with a weather alert radio under legislation introduced this week by Rep. Spencer Bachus and others.

"I was almost stunned that such a wonderful idea as this, that we hadn't done it before," Bachus said Thursday.

Named for a 2-year-old boy killed in tornado in Indiana in 2005, C.J.'s Home Protection Act would change the federal safety standards for manufactured homes and make the industry pay for the receivers and their installation before the homes are delivered.

"I say it makes the mobile home that much more valuable," said Bachus, a Vestavia Hills Republican who was wearing a large lapel button with C.J's picture on it.

Contacted earlier today, Rep. Bachus's office confirms that his bill would not require a weather radio to be installed in the Clinton Presidential Library, since construction there has already been completed and the wheels removed.