On the recordJanuary 27, 1995
Worker safety is critically important. I do not understand how people who work in those conditions can do so without having the fear of their life every time. Even more important than that, while I was down in that coal mine and at the time that I was down in there, my son was a young man, he might have been 14 or 15 years old, so the thought came to me, ``What would happen to my child if I didn't come out of that mine?'' My husband, as many of you already know, had lost his life already. I was his sole parent. And if I was in that coal mine and a methane gas explosion came out, I did not know what was going to happen to my child. So I prayed and was really glad when I got up out of there. For that reason, if for no other reason alone, I learned that worker safety is critically important and this is a critically important piece of legislation. I would hope that everybody in this House would vote for it.
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