Word: casse
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...lobbying hard for bills proposed by Republican Representative Cass Ballenger of North Carolina and New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg that would curb OSHA's power to issue citations and fines for infractions of hundreds of rules and regulations. The sweeping change would transform the agency from a watchdog on safety matters to a toothless "adviser" to industry. Ballenger's measure has picked up 155 co-sponsors and, with some tinkering, could pass the House this spring. As it happens, Ballenger got $10,000 from UPS for his 1994 election race. Gregg, who contends that "OSHA has developed a well...
...making a big impression on Capitol Hill. House majority whip Tom DeLay, a former exterminator, says the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed fire ants to trample the South. Georgia dentist Charles Norwood says federal regulators have made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory reform, DeLay, Norwood and Ballenger are attempting to de-fang and defund their old bureaucratic nemeses. Yet a closer look at their tales reveals that...
...great irony here that the neighsayers themselves are making a profoundly political move--in preserving the status quo. As Cass Sunstein notes in his The Partial Constitution, much modern conservative advocacy centers around "taking, as given and as the baseline for decision, the status quo, or what various people and groups now have." This status quo neutrality masquerades as impartiality or objectivity, advancing its objectives all the more insidiously by virtue of its ostensible ideological purity. Thus there is no apolitical foundation from which the ethnic studies advocates wish to displace the current curriculum. Ethnic studies advocates should not shrink...
When the taxpayers of Cass County, North Dakota, learned that Washington was ready to spend $46 million on a new federal courthouse in downtown Fargo, they did something most politicians in Washington couldn't have imagined: the citizens tried to give the money back. Agitated by stories in the local newspaper, they sent angry letters to the federal judge overseeing the project, who then helped shrink the plan to $36 million. The state's two Democratic Senators joined the opposition and urged architects to design something that would cost no more than $23 million. Then planners scrapped the idea...
Perhaps because they sit atop some of America's most fertile land-the topsoil, the remains of a prehistoric lake bed, can run 6 ft. deep -- many Cass County farmers say they are ready for change. Most find the welter of farm programs confining and confusing; many would prefer to shuck them altogether. Indeed, some farmers have begun to get out of the farm program voluntarily. Gerald Melvin, a third-generation farmer who works 3,000 acres that produce durum wheat, beans and five other crops, suggests that farmers would gladly accept reduced payments if Washington stopped placing burdensome environmental...