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Cass Ballenger: “last week my office received a copy of a letter which the AFL-CIO is circulating to Members of Congress opposing the…”

On the recordApril 30, 1996
last week my office received a copy of a letter which the AFL-CIO is circulating to Members of Congress opposing the Small Business OSHA Relief Act, H.R. 3234. Not surprisingly, the letter never mentions the fact that every single item in the Small Business OSHA Relief Act has been taken directly from policy pronouncements of the Clinton administration. The AFL-CIO has shown how extreme its own agenda is when it opposes this very modest legislation, which is limited in scope and represents areas of agreement between the Clinton administration's initiatives and our desire to make OSHA less adversarial and more commonsensical. The Clinton administration has repeatedly said that OSHA needs to be reinvented. But will the Clinton administration have the backbone to stand by its own words and initiatives when the AFL-CIO comes calling?
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina
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Discussing opposition to the Small Business OSHA Relief Act by the AFL-CIO.

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