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OSHA Regulations Hurt Americans
(Rep. Traficant,)
NRA Running Out of Excuses (Rep. Conyers)
NRA Rhetoric (Rep. Schakowsky)
Mr. TRAFICANT (House - 3/22/200)
Mr. Speaker, this month the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that American homes are dangerous and "a hazard to workers who work in their own home." Now, if that is not enough to bust your subdermal hematoma, check this out: employers who allow their own employees to work out of their own homes are now liable if their employee gets hurt in their very own home. Beam me up. What is next? Will husbands be fined for an aggressive honeymoon in their very own home? I recommend that Congress ship OSHA to Japan and China, and let them screw those countries up. I yield back the fact that these overburdening regulations in America are killing American jobs and forcing American companies to move overseas.
Mr. CONYERS (House - 3/22/2000)
Mr. Speaker, the House passed the Lofgren motion a week ago instructing the conferees to insist that the comatose gun safety conference meet. A week later, the silence is deafening.
The silence you hear, Mr. Speaker, is the NRA, National Rifle Association, running out of arguments against gun safety. First they said the gun laws do not work, but the Brady law stopped 500,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers from buying guns. Then they said we need to enforce the laws. So now everyone supports enforcement. But when you hear the NRA cry its misleading statistics, remember, it is a trick, a trick to divert attention from their opposition to closing the gun show loophole, a trick so that the NRA does not have to explain why it supports laws that allow criminals to get their guns back, and it is a farce.
The NRA opposed the laws they now want so badly enforced, and the NRA has made sure that the agencies that enforce the gun laws can only do so with one arm tied behind their back.
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (House - 3/14/2000)
Mr. Speaker, Shame, shame, shame. The NRA's leadership has once again shamed our nation, the American people, and its own members. Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's Executive Vice President, on national television, suggested that the President of the United States promotes violence for his political gain. LaPierre said, ``I've come to believe that he needs a certain level of violence in this country. He's willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president too.''
To all the parents who lost a son or daughter to gun violence, LaPierre is telling them to blame the President and not the guns. I would not be surprised to hear the NRA's leadership blaming school grief counselors of inciting more school shootings so they can have more business. How can the NRA leadership ignore the fact that thirteen children die each day from gun violence? How can they ignore the fact that a majority of Americans want Congress to pass sensible gun safety measures? How can they lay blame on a President who supports background checks at gun shows, a ban on the import of large-capacity ammunition clips, and the sale of child safety locks with every handgun?
It's time for the NRA leadership to wake up and smell the gunpowder in our communities and classrooms, and step out of the way of meaningful gun safety legislation.
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be tightened? Why or why not." -- Laurie Beth
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