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		<title>394.  Transportation Department relaxes rules on truckdriving safety</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/11/394-transportation-department-relaxes-rules-on-truckdriving-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 20, 2008, the Transportation Department&#8217;s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration finalized rules on truck driving, similar to ones thrown out last year by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.  The rules will allow truckdrivers to drive 77 hours in a 7 day cycle and mandates only 34 hours rest between cycles.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>381. Labor Department pulls rug out from under corporate whistleblowers</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/381-labor-department-pulls-rug-out-from-under-corporate-whistleblowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a skewed and highly restrictive interpretation of the whistleblower protection provision of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Elaine Chao&#8217;s Department of Labor (see item 63) has decided that it does not apply to the subsidiaries of publicly traded companies.  As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the Department has ruled in favor of whistleblowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>244. Steven Law (Mitch McConnell crony)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/244-steven-law-mitch-mcconnell-crony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/244-steven-law-mitch-mcconnell-crony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crony&#8217;s chronicle. Steven Law was Senator Mitch McConnell&#8217;s 1990 campaign manager and later became his chief of staff. When McConnell was named chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 1996, he chose Law as its executive director. In 2001, Elaine Chao (McConnell&#8217;s wife) and the new Secretary of Labor made him her chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>235. Richard Stickler (opposed to mine safety regulation nominated to head Mine Safety)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/235-richard-stickler-opposed-to-mine-safety-regulation-nominated-to-head-mine-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/235-richard-stickler-opposed-to-mine-safety-regulation-nominated-to-head-mine-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite his nomination being returned twice by the Senate to the White House and opposed by the United Mine Workers union, Richard Stickler was recess appointed Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor and head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.on October 16, 2006. His background was in engineering, not health. He worked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>232. Peter Kirsanow affirmative action opponent named to Civil Rights Commission</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/232-peter-kirsanow-affirmative-action-opponent-named-to-civil-rights-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/232-peter-kirsanow-affirmative-action-opponent-named-to-civil-rights-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And another. Peter Kirsanow an arch-conservative opponent of affirmative action was named on December 6, 2001 by direct appointment to a 6 year term on the Civil Rights Commission by President Bush. The appointment was contested but ultimately confirmed by the DC Court of Appeals in May 2002. On July 19, 2002, Kirsanow said that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>201. SCOTUS: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber Co. (gender discrimination)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/201-scotus-ledbetter-v-goodyear-tire-rubber-co-gender-discrimination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/201-scotus-ledbetter-v-goodyear-tire-rubber-co-gender-discrimination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 29, 2007, SCOTUS decided 5-4 in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire &#38; Rubber Co., Inc. that Ledbetter had only 180 days to file an EOCC complaint of salary discrimination based on sex and that although the discrimination had been going on for years, the court would consider only wage discrimination that had occurred within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>184. Gutting overtime pay regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/184-gutting-overtime-pay-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/184-gutting-overtime-pay-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 23, 2004, the Labor Department changed regulations contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 to raise the minimum salary (from $155 to $455/week) at which executive, administrative, and professional employees must be paid overtime.  I expect the idea was that they should be happy to have a job and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>68. Sago mining disaster (non-enforcement of safety regs)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/68-sago-mining-disaster-non-enforcement-of-safety-regs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/68-sago-mining-disaster-non-enforcement-of-safety-regs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sago mining disaster hearings and MHSA&#8217;s David Dye who walked out of the hearings; Bush push for reduction in fines for safety violations and non-collection of them since 2001.
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		<title>63. Labor Department (ground down by Mitch McConnell&#8217;s wife)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/63-labor-department-ground-down-by-mitch-mcconnells-wife/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/63-labor-department-ground-down-by-mitch-mcconnells-wife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decimation of the Labor Department presided over by Elaine Chao, married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; job safety, job creation, wage increases, unions, and workers&#8217; rights have languished under her stewardship. Edwin Foulke who heads OSHA continues the Administration policy of trusting to self-regulation of industry, by industry, for industry.
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