Political Quotes

“Today as Americans head off to work, 17 of them will die and 18,600 of them will be injured on the job. All of us on the Labor Committee have worked very hard to make sure those numbers come down--not go up. We do not want an increase; we want a dramatic decrease in deaths. We want a dramatic decrease in the number who are injured. I repeat: 17 working Americans will not be returning home tonight because they will die on the job. As chairman of the Worker Safety Subcommittee, I feel responsible to those families for making sure we are doing all we can to prevent those horrible accidents from occurring in the first place. I feel responsible for finding solutions that will help protect more workers from harm. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, is the Government agency responsible for regulating safety laws in America. The way OSHA is supposed to work is that it should be providing helpful assistance to the overwhelming number of employers who are actively pursuing safer workplaces. And I can tell you that according to OSHA: . . . 95 percent of the employers do their level best to try to voluntarily comply with OSHA. Simultaneously, OSHA should be effectively targeting those employers who are willfully disregarding safety laws. They should be inspecting them. They should be fining them.”