The House votes to give an urgently needed but shamefully toothless agency another kick in the mouth: The House voted Tuesday to make employer-friendly changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, including adding two members to a violations review commission, increasing its power, extending deadlines for companies to challenge citations and allowing more of them to recoup lawyers' fees. Republicans said the four bills would enhance OSHA's oversight of employers and improve the regulatory process. Democrats said the legislation was an election-year gift to big business, intended to weaken regulation that ultimately would hurt workers.
5/21/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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