Now over a quarter of the way through its two-year term, the 110th Congress has been pressuring the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to promulgate new rules and regulations that would provide better protections for the American workforce. 
 
For example, on May 24, the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing titled “Workforce Safety: Who do Millions of Workers Remain Without OSHA Coverage?” That hearing was held exactly one month after the same subcommittee held a hearing titled “Have OSHA Standards Kept up with Workplace Hazards?” The Senate has also ...