Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, yesterday the Department of Labor issued its fall 2019 regulatory agenda. The department announced plans to initiate a Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act panel for the prevention of workplace violence in healthcare and social assistance in January. This is a very positive and important development. Unfortunately, H.R. 1309 encourages and allows OSHA to skip this important step of gathering feedback and advice from small businesses, all to satisfy the arbitrary 1-year deadline for issuing an interim final standard. Shortchanging the views of small businesses at the expense of a rushed, sweeping, and overly proscriptive standard is not an appropriate trade-off. Additionally, the legislative text and scope of H.R. 1309 are so proscriptive that OSHA wouldn't be able to deviate from the mandates in the bill even if the recommendation from the small business panel are contrary to that of H.R. 1309. The Trump administration is moving forward with the rule-making process. Rather than pass H.R. 1309, we should be allowing OSHA to do its work on a comprehensive standard, including soliciting necessary input from small businesses. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”