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The Trump Budget is full of broken promises...
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Without more emergency relief, hundreds of thousands of teachers and school staff will be laid-off in the months ahead. We must honor #TeacherAppreciationWeek by giving schools and states the resources they need to avert devastating cuts to public education.
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Many workers don’t have the luxury of staying home. Without strong workplace protections, thousands of people will continue to get sick. But three months into this crisis, the Trump administration still refuses to establish emergency workplace safety standards.
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Decades of scientific evidence and real world experience have proven that exposure to respirable silica dust is deadly and MSHA has not sufficiently protected miners.

Congressman Bobby Scott: “MSHA should have acted sooner to issue a more protective regulation, however, miners cannot wait. In order to accelerate this process, my Committee is working on legislation to protect miners’ from silica exposure.”

#BREAKING: Healthcare workers are suing OSHA because of the agency’s failure to keep workers safe during the pandemic.

Congressman Bobby Scott: "This administration has inexplicably failed to learn the lessons of H1N1, Ebola and now, COVID-19. The shelving of OSHA’s infectious disease standard and the agency’s failure to revive it during this pandemic show that they value anti-regulatory ideology over saving workers’ lives. This Committee has repeatedly called for OSHA to finalize the nearly completed infectious disease standard since January, and the House of Representatives has twice passed legislation to require a permanent standard only to meet stonewalling from Senate Republicans and the Trump administration."

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