OSHA observers expect wide-ranging impacts on the agency depending on the results of Tuesday's elections, with a Romney administration likely to cut back resources for enforcement and and dramatically slow OSHA's rulemaking agenda, and a re-elected President Obama expected to accelerate the agenda and perhaps move toward finalizing the agency's top regulatory priority, injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2). Also, congressional watchers are waiting to see how changes at the committee level could affect OSHA, especially the pending retirement of a key OSHA supporter, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D
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