But, the goal of the regulation and of the statute is usually health and safety and environmental protection and such, and the fine, the penalty here, becomes a vehicle to help accomplish some of that.
Lankford emphasizes the importance of regulations for health and safety over merely imposing fines.
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This will prevent a government-wide shutdown, continue critical services and operations for Americans, and hold federal workers harmless while Congress completes appropriations.
Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving.
We need to take government shutdowns off the table and force Congress to stay in town until its work is done.
Countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind glass or through a screen because we couldn’t get access to them.
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