Harry Reid

The Protecting America's Workers Act is a powerful tool to allow families to have a say in investigations.

This Occupational Safety and Health Act is out of date and too weak to provide meaningful incentives for employers to address job hazards.

The first priority and concern of all in the coal or other mining industry must be the health and safety of its most precious resource, the miner.

Tomorrow is Workers' Memorial Day to remember and honor those who have died from their work.

It is time to hold CEOs and corporate Boards of Directors accountable when the facts reveal systematic problems with health and safety compliance.

Statistics from the mining industry offer dramatic proof that improved laws and regulations make a huge difference in workers' safety.

PAWA would address many of the core deficiencies in the current OSH Act.

We have to the reach the point in this country that miners, without hesitation, report unsafe conditions.

MSHA can and should be more pro-active and effective in using all the enforcement tools Congress provided in the Mine Act.

Our hearts and prayers go out to all the families who have lost their loved ones as well as with the family sitting by the hospital bed of the injured miner.

This is terribly wrong.

Unless operators do what the law requires of them, and do so each and every day--not just when a government inspector is physically on site--miners will continue to be exposed to needless hazards to their health and safety.

We vowed to improve safety in the mines, and we passed the MINERs Act, which we thought was pretty good.

Safety is also about State and Federal Government stepping in; I think, toughening up our laws, where appropriate.

We owe all workers action. We owe them accountability. We owe them assurance that when they go to work every day they are not alone.

I do not believe the answer to this problem necessarily lies in lowering the 60-vote threshold to break the filibuster.

I find abuses, the way I have seen in recent years, on holds placed on confirmation process, and holds placed on uncontroversial items, to be used as leverage elsewhere.

I stand with our late colleague, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, when it comes to measures designed to eliminate or substantially limit the basic structure of current filibuster rules.

One Senator shouldn't be able to place holds on people forever.

I hope that we don't get in the tradition of filibustering judicial nominees.

Once you open that Pandora's box, it was just a matter of time before a Senate leader who could not get his way on something moved to eliminate the filibuster for regular business as well, and that, simply put, would be the end of the…

This is the end of the Senate if we change the filibuster rule.

It would be the end of the Senate as we know it and it was going to be Armageddon.

I could not believe Bill Frist was going to do this. He decided to pursue a rules change that would kill the filibuster for judicial nominations.

Once you open that Pandora's box, it is just a matter of time before a Senate leader who could not get his way on something moved to eliminate the filibuster for regular business as well and that simply put would be the end of the United…