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When you talk about appropriate funding, one of the issues which has concerned me for many years and I have introduced legislation on, is the very high cost in the last few days, few weeks before death and the really inadequate information…
I think this subcommittee for the past decade-plus has been a model of bipartisan cooperation.
Nobody should decide for anybody else when the life support systems will be turned off.
I don't want to spend any more time on ergonomics because I've asked you to supply the materials in writing.
Madam Secretary, Pennsylvania has had insufficient funding in that line with the current larger allocation.
Pennsylvania has seen what has been termed to me a major mismatch between eligible recipients and Federal dollars.
Turning to the issue of ergonomics, last year in April you proposed to reduce ergonomic injuries through voluntary guidelines, but to have enforcement under OSHA's general duty clause.
How can that be, with the cut of some $78 million?
Off-hand, on the surface, it would appear to me that 103 ergonomic inspections in all other industries beyond nursing homes is a small number.
We need to evaluate what your voluntary guidelines are producing.
It is a big job to administer the Department of Labor, and we are very pleased to work with you on the budget.
Well, would you take a look at that and see if there is some way that can be worked out to the satisfaction of the State officials?
Should labor unions be required to have more detailed reporting requirements than their corporate, private corporate counterparts?
The steel industry is only illustrative of one of the industries which is victimized by foreign subsidies and dumping.
I commend--there's no doubt about the need for reporting, and for knowing what goes on with union records.
Ladies and gentlemen, what I want to be sure about, and I cannot quite accomplish it in this hearing today, is that we are not making any political decision, that you are making scientific decisions.