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...This statute, Democrats argued angrily, renders Congress virtually impotent in terms of addressing ergonomic injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, which affect as many as 2 million American workers. Republicans rejected those fears Monday, citing Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's assurances that new, "comprehensive" ergonomics guidelines will, in fact, be introduced and implemented quickly...
...perfect beliefs of an Attorney General from 125 years ago, but he will never welcome us to Janet Reno's Dance Party and tell us to "Stop moshing!" In fact, Ashcroft is so conservative that he refused to dance at his own gubernatorial inaugural ball in Missouri. Labor Secretary Chao can see over a podium. Clinton's former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was so short that he had to sit on a table...
...Chao, wife of Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, is the former director of the Peace Corps and a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. She also served as deputy secretary of transportation under former President Bush...
...confirmed, Chao will, in Bush's words, "bring great compassion and a commitment to helping people build better lives" to her Cabinet post. And few doubt Chao will, in fact, take office. Even before she was officially nominated, Republican senators were promoting her candidacy far and wide. "I support Elaine Chao," Tennessee's Bill Frist told reporters Wednesday. "She would certainly be confirmed." Some even call Chao's relative inexperience in the labor arena an asset for the Bush team - sometimes during the confirmation process the only good record is no record...
...Chao, who is not shy about her conservative ideology, may be helped through the confirmation three-ring circus by the fact that the labor and civil rights groups so vehemently opposed to Chavez's nomination have now focused their attention on Bush's attorney general-designate, John Ashcroft...