"So is that less incentive for some employers to follow safety procedures?"
"I agree with you that some changes are necessary to make the law and the agency more effective."
"I think that really can make a difference for competitors in the area."
"It does seem to me that having more information would cause people to at least stop and think."
"Last Congress I introduced a bill, the Mine Disaster Family Assistance Act of 2007."
"I'm particularly interested in how families are treated during an accident or an accident investigation."
"You know the majority of employers who get an OSHA citation choose to negotiate with their local OSHA office for an informal settlement."
"I mean it just seems incongruous to me that families who have a fatally injured family member that they're burying gets less compensation than what we are fining the employer."
"I certainly support this legislation."
"This is not about hard-to-fund technologies. This is just about funding technology, and with the credit markets frozen up..."
"What can the Government do to break the logjam and resolve our energy crisis at the same time?"
"We must lessen the environmental impact of our surface transportation system in the air, on water, and on land."
