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...Waller: No. These are regulations, not an executive order. They were 10 years in the making and were approved by OSHA in November, then signed by President Clinton...
...titanic legislative battle is shaping up, pitting big business against labor unions in a tussle over workplace ergonomics regulations designed to cut down on repetitive stress injuries. The rules were OK'd by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the final days of the Clinton White House...
Republicans, who've been itching to reverse many of Clinton's 11th-hour regulations and executive orders, have decided that the OSHA rules will be their first target. Using the obscure Congressional Review Act that he got passed five years ago, Senate Republican Whip Don Nickles wants to have a vote this week to overturn the regulations, which went into effect Jan. 16. Businesses are howling that the 1,688 pages of standards they must meet could cost over $100 billion a year. But the opposition, citing figures of 600,000 people a year laid up by the injuries...
...That's what Gore calls it too. Except that the reason DeLay and Hastert killed the deal (a repetitive-stress-syndrome OSHA regulation measure) was definitely on behalf of business - and is one of the things that tend to make the GOP look mean-spirited once Clinton gets to spinning...
...letter went mostly unnoticed for over a month until the Washington Post wrote a story about it, prompting the scorn of business groups, which said it would be too costly for small businesses. Within 48 hours of the story's appearance, OSHA recanted, saying the letter was meant to address only one particular firm. The reason behind the reversal seems to be little more than common sense. OSHA head Charles Jeffress, who, at the President's urging, presented the report to Congress this week, told congressmen that while it initially seemed to make sense that employers not shirk their responsibilities...