Key House Republican Says Congress Needs To Start 'From Scratch' On OSHA Reform

A leading House Republican on occupational safety and health says any chance for OSHA reform under GOP dominance of the body likely depends upon “starting from scratch” rather than attempting to take up pieces of the sweeping Democratic legislation that gained little traction in the previous Congress. But Rep. John Kline (MN), chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, also says there are less controversial victims' rights provisions contained in that bill that could pick up GOP backing. Kline tells Inside OSHA Online in an exclusive interview that Republicans want to work across t