Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike all after section 1 and insert the following: SECTION 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) In a 2016 report entitled, ``Workplace Safety and Health: Additional Efforts Needed to Help Protect Health Care Workers from Workplace Violence'', the Government Accountability Office estimated over 730,000 cases of health care workplace assaults over the 5-year span from 2009 through 2013, based on Bureau of Justice Statistics data. (2) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the health care and social service industries experience the highest rates of injuries caused by workplace violence. Nurses, social workers, psychiatric, home health, and personal care aides are all at increased risk for injury caused by workplace violence. (3) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that health care and social service workers suffered 71 percent of all workplace violence injuries caused by persons in 2017 and are more than 4 times as likely to suffer a workplace violence injury than workers overall. (4) According to a September 2018 survey of 3,500 American emergency physicians conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians, 47 percent of emergency room doctors have been physically assaulted at work, and 8 in 10 report that this violence is affecting patient care.…”