There's no evidence like eyewitness evidence Senator. I recommend that you hump that fat ass into that mine for a little up close and personal evidence gathering.
Posted on 08/23/2007 12:58:28 PM PDT by yorkie
As rescuers drilled a final hole into a Utah mountain Thursday to search for six missing coal miners, the U.S. Senate added its voice to a growing chorus of questions raised over the safety of the mine.
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees labor issues announced plans for a hearing on the mine collapse when Congress returns from its summer break Sept. 5.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, also demanded a list of documents Thursday from the Labor Department about the Crandall Canyon Mine and its operators.
Kennedy wants to review several petitions the mine's co-owner, Bob Murray, made to the Mine Safety and Health Administration for changes in his mining plans at Crandall Canyon, among other documents. Experts have said the proposed changes were risky and could have led to the Aug. 6 cave-in that trapped six miners.
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Kennedy: “We don’t need no more coal, we can get enough energy in this here conservation machine...”
Very tragic. I wish that somehow robots could do the dangerous work in mining. Very sad for the families.
I don’t know what light Ted Kennedy can shed on this. Mining is and always has been dangerous work.
they are trying to smear another Bush appointee for political gain.
Whew! I don’t know about anyone else, but I sure feel confident that Kennedy will get to the bottom of this!
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Oh swell. Senate “experts” jump into the pool. That’ll help.
Hey, Teddy! Maybe we can build wind farms instead!
Grandstanding morons. We have MSHA and OSHA to deal with this.
Hey, Teddy! Maybe we can build wind farms instead!
Grandstanding morons. We have MSHA and OSHA to deal with this.
In today’s world there’s never such thing as an accident.
US mines are the most automated in the World. A mine collapse this size would have killed hundreds in China or India. We just don't have that many people underground, anymore.
Grandstanding morons covers it. What a waste of time and money and the worst part of it is it will take all sorts of people away from there job of actually trying to make things safer to talk to these publicity hounds.
There's no evidence like eyewitness evidence Senator. I recommend that you hump that fat ass into that mine for a little up close and personal evidence gathering.
that’s it teddy - you idiot - hold another worthless Senate meeting...MORON...better yet, volunteer to be a support beam in a mine, any mine...your fat enough to hold up a wall of coal, go for it.
If we didn’t have a 2 party system, mines could collapse everyday and the government would be like Russia and not care or have anything to gain by improving the situation.
Can’t we do something about this egregious waste of taxpayer dollars?
Maybe not a pure “accident”, but its probably real difficult to Safety Plan for an earthquake tremor of any magnitude.
it’s not the government’s job to improve the situation. If the miners don’t like the way the mine is run, they can get another job.
I am so sick of their “investigations” into baseball, football, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and now mining. Gee I wonder why they can’t get anything done. What’s in the job description??
Because, you know, Democrap Senate hearings can bring back the dead miners. What garbage.
Of course, holding hearings and issuing subpeonas is all the Democrap Congress knows how to do, so this is no surprise...
Massachusetts Fats should pay attention to his own safety problems. I refer, of course, to that leaking hole known as the Big Dig.
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