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Aftermath

Another Bush Catastrophe

Workplace safety regulations slowed to a halt.

Add one more to the gone-wrong pile - even OSHA went haywire under President Bush. The workplace safety agency issued 86 percent fewer rules or regulations from 2001 to 2007 than it did under President Clinton and experts say it dropped the ball on protecting workers' safety. According to a Washington Post article, former OSHA director Edwin Foulke Jr. "literally fell asleep on the job," frequently passing out during meetings. "We'll be sitting there and things will fall out of his hands; people will go on talking like nothing ever happened," one OSHA official said.

Read it at The Washington Post

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