George Miller (D-Calif.) Pledges to Block 'Secret Rule'

[babylonsister]

These people are EVIL! :grr:

Lawmaker Pledges to Block 'Secret Rule'

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 25, 2008; 9:24 AM


A congressional leader pledged this morning to introduce legislation that would block an eleventh-hour effort by the Labor Department to make it more difficult to limit workers' exposure to chemicals on the job.

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said he was determined to stop a "secret rule" that he described as a Bush administration effort to block the next president from trying to reduce worker deaths and illness caused by workplace toxins.

The Labor Department has refused to discuss or release the proposal, a copy of which was obtained yesterday by the Post. The proposed rulemaking would require that the department allow a new round of challenges to the risk assessments used to determine how much exposure to certain chemicals is unsafe, adding another step to the process of setting regulations for workplace chemicals.

Published reports about the effort have spurred anger and condemnation from unions, congressional Democrats and public health scientists. Critics claim the rule is a "midnight regulation" that political appointees quietly drafted without public disclosure and after overriding the objections of the agency's worker safety experts.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072500595.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[VP505]

1. Very strange, IMO.

That doesn't seem to fit the same Congressman Miller that I have heard speak on the House floor many times. There has to be much more to this than what WAPO reported, time to do some research to find out more.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. How so? Is he normally anti-labor? nt

[VP505]

3. Oops, I didn't read carefully enough.

I was trying to do other things while reading this, thanks for questioning, Rep Miller IS supporting labor. I really screwed up that attempt to multitask.