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...NICKLES Spearheads overturn of Clinton's workplace-safety regulations. Hope he didn't strain his back...
...March 7, the Faculty Council voted to recommend raising the optional term-bill fee that provides funding for student groups from $20 to $35. Though the hike would overturn the result of last year's student referendum, the Faculty Council's decision is a good one, and the full Faculty should implement the recommendations at its next meeting...
...Faculty Council voted at its meeting yesterday to recommend that the Faculty raise the Undergraduate Council's optional term-bill fee to $35 from its current level of $20, a move that would overturn the results of a student-wide referendum held last year...
...order to review and revoke Clinton's rules, the Senate dug up the 1996 Congressional Review Act, a rarely used safety net that allows Congress to overturn federal regulations without holding hearings and without more than 10 hours of debate, and prohibits the reintroduction of "substantially similar" legislation to replace the dismissed rules...
...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, is ready to dig in its heels...