[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       OSHA SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, last week my office received a copy of a 
letter which the AFL-CIO is circulating to Members of Congress opposing 
the Small Business OSHA Relief Act, H.R. 3234.
  Not surprisingly, the letter never mentions the fact that every 
single item in the Small Business OSHA Relief Act has been taken 
directly from policy pronouncements of the Clinton administration. The 
AFL-CIO has shown how extreme its own agenda is when it opposes this 
very modest legislation, which is limited in scope and represents areas 
of agreement between the Clinton administration's initiatives and our 
desire to make OSHA less adversarial and more commonsensical.
  The Clinton administration has repeatedly said that OSHA needs to be 
reinvented. But will the Clinton administration have the backbone to 
stand by its own words and initiatives when the AFL-CIO comes calling?

                          ____________________