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H.R.2768 - S-MINER Act
To establish improved mandatory standards to protect miners during emergencies, and for other purposes. view all titles (7)
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- Short: S-MINER Act as introduced.
- Short: Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2007 as introduced.
- Short: S-MINER Act as reported to house.
- Short: Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2007 as passed house.
- Short: Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2007 as reported to house.
- Short: S-MINER Act as passed house.
- Official: To establish improved mandatory standards to protect miners during emergencies, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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Miner Safety Bill Clears House, Bush Veto Looms
The S-MINER bill (HR 2768) passed the House in a 214-199 vote, largely along party lines. The bill creates additional federal protections for miners and ...
Despite Bush veto threat, House passes new mine safety bill
The S-Miner Act, HR 2768, “would build on the improvements” in mine safety enacted two years ago in a bipartisan mine safety law after a series of disasters ...
Despite Bush veto threat, House passes new mine safety bill
The S-Miner Act, HR 2768, "would build on the improvements" in mine safety enacted 2 years ago in a bipartisan mine safety law after a series of disasters ...
Thomas Voting Reports
Republican mining bill: Members defeated, 188-229, a GOP attempt to strip HR 2768 (above) of its sweeping new regulations on the US mining industry. ...
House Passes Mine Safety Bill Despite Veto Threats
The measure, HR 2768, the Supplementary Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (S-MINER) Act, was introduced after an explosion at Crandall Canyon Mine ...
Tough new health & safety bill approved on narrow US House vote
The National Mining Association quickly expressed its disappointment with passage of HR 2768, the Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response ...
White House Opposes Mine Safety Bill
... with people's lives and work with Congress to enact mine safety reforms that were left unaddressed by the MINER Act of 2006." The bill number is HR 2768.
The Week Ahead: The Week of January 14
Later in the week, action expected on HR 2768, the mine safety bill. The majority leader's schedule for the week is available here. ...
Coal Industry Finds a Friend in Court
Now Congress is working on additional mine safety legislation -- the S-MINER Act (HR 2768) -- that many in the industry see as impractical and unnecessary. ...
The Week Just Passed: Military Spending, Government-Wide Spending ...
New Items HR 2768 The S-MINER Act Costs $1.68 per family http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_2768.html S. 1642 The Higher Education Amendments ...
Major MINER Act Reform Bill Passes House Committee
By a vote of 26 to 18, the US House Education and Labor Committee approved HR 2768, The Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act, ...
ASSE: Some Provisions in House Mining Bills "Not Realistic"
... American Society of Safety Engineers President Michael W. Thompson, CSP, offers comments on mining safety reform legislation, HR 2768 and HR 2769, ...
UMWA: Doubling of Black Lung Prevalence "Shocking and Disturbing"
... or S-MINER Act (HR. 2768 and HR 2769 in the House and S. 1655 in the Senate), includes language that would lower permissible respirable dust standards ...
OSHA Is Watching--How to Handle a Construction Inspection
According to Abrams, employers covered by OSHA should be aware that the proposed S-Miner Act (HR 2768) would cut silica exposure limits in the mining ...
Quaker organization urges congress to tighten mine safety rules
That legislation, HR 2768 and 2769 and S. 1655, introduced in June of this year by Representatives George Miller (D-CA), Nick Rahall (D-WV), ...
Mollohan Joins with Rahall, California's George Miller as Original ...
The legislation (HR 2768 and HR 2769) would establish an independent ombudsman to ensure proper attention to miner complaints of unsafe conditions and to ...
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