On the recordMarch 6, 2001
These regulations would force every employer to adopt a complete ergonomics program if just one "symptom" of stress is found in an employee, even if that employee developed the injury in athletics or weekend gardening. This week, however, after 65 years of increasingly abdicating its lawmaking responsibilities to federal bureaucrats, Congress may finally assert its authority and rescind Mr. Clinton's unworkable ergonomic regulations. Forcing a rewrite of repetitive stress injury rules would not only save billions, but also shock bureaucrats into the realization that if their rule making is too sloppy or unscientific there are ways of stopping them. The debate that begins today in the Senate was made possible by the 1996 Congressional Review Act. It allows a simple majority of both houses of Congress to reject federal regulations that have an impact of at least $100 million a year.
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