Senator McClure laments 63 foot federal form burden
A constituent offered to pay a $500 penalty rather than complete a federal form he claimed would cost more than that amount to fill out. The tale, used by Senator James A. McClure to push a bill amendment on OSHA inflation impact statements, illustrated mounting regulatory costs. The amendment failed.
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James A. McClure
R.-Ida
Ford
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Agency
Health Law Practice Surges Amid Safer Compliance Push
Health and the Law notes a threefold rise in medical malpractice specialist lawyers due to new federal and state rules, regulators’ probes of health care, and more lawsuits. Hospitals increasingly employ in house attorneys from near zero five years ago to about 100 now.
Treasury Economist Delivers Sharp Speech at Economists Club
Daniel Brill, deputy top economist in the Treasury, spoke before the National Economists Club offering a provocative title TINSTRAFS and restating the first law of economics There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch highlighting the cost of free lunches in policy and markets.
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Treasury
Daniel Brill
National Economists Club
Washington
Richardsons Special Report on Governors Masked Actions
A critical look at Governor Brown and Senator Deukmejian reveals a pattern of political masquerades. The piece accuses Brown of shifting masks from fiscal conservatism to expansive spending while courting business leaders and clashing with labor. It notes his July and August moves, including a controversial stop crime campaign crossover and a veto of the death penalty, portraying a charade of leadership that misleads the public.
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Sayonara
California
Sacramento
Deukmejian
Brown
United States
Hidden Owners and Creative Bankruptcy in Nursing Homes
Investigative report outlines how some nursing home operators hide behind corporations to siphon Medicare funds and evade taxes while residents suffer. Also covered are political misreads on natural gas deregulation, welfare costs on the poor, and a Consumer Product Safety recall of 115000 faulty smoke detectors with only 28 percent recovered.
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Washington
Congress
America
Mn Searenees
Evect Dlare
Connecticut
Carter
Senate
South Dakota
James Abourezk
Ohio
Howard Metzenbaum
White House
Metzenbaum
Mel Haaper
Consumer Product Safety Commission
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Lake Michigan Rebounds Fueling Huge Sport Fishing Boom
Eleven years after alewives wiped out trout, coho and chinook salmon restored the lake’s balance. Since 1966 four surrounding states added about one hundred million fish, Michigan spent 22 million, and sport fishing now nets 350 million dollars annually.
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San Francisco Bay
Cuyahoga
Ohio
Lake Erie
Lake Michigan
United States Department of Interior
Welland Canal
Michigan
Department of Natural Resources
Chicago
Sovereignty and the Panama Canal Treaty Analysis
U.S. Senator S S Hayakawa argues the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty grants the United States long term use and control of a canal zone rather than outright sovereignty. He contends the aim is national security and canal operation, with sovereignty only potentially arising if constitutional changes force new congressional votes.
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U.S
S.S. Hayakawa
Roosevelt
Republic of Panama
United States
Panama Canal
Louisiana
U.S. Supreme Court
Canal
Congress
Senate
Great Tehachapi Train Wreck Sparks Deaths and Injuries
On January 20, 1883 a Southern Pacific passenger train from Bakersfield to Tehachapi derailed after rolling downhill past a station. The seven cars including sleepers and a passenger coach were swept down a steep grade in high wind with brakes failing. two sleepers left the track and burned, many passengers were injured, one unnamed Miss Squires died, and authorities could not confirm total fatalities.
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Tehcahhapis
Southern Pacific
Tehachapi
Bakersfield
Eli Sleeper
Postal
Express
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