Posted on 02/04/2015 6:19:08 AM PST by DoodleDawg
Congressional Republicans are challenging several health regulations, with one senator suggesting restaurants shouldn't have to make their employees wash their hands after bathroom visits. Such restaurants would have to prominently disclose their decision, and then would probably would go out of business, said newly elected GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. But they should have that choice, he said. Tillis raised the issue when speaking Monday to the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. Restaurant chains such as Starbucks should be able to skip obligatory hand-washing by workers, he said, "as long as they post a sign" and take other steps to alert the public. "Let them decide" such issues, Tillis said, adding: "That's probably one where every business that did that would go out of business. But I think it's good to illustrate the point, that that's the sort of mentality we need to have to reduce the regulatory burden on this country." Tillis defended his point in an interview Tuesday in the Capitol. "Sometimes there are regulations that maybe we want to set a direction, but then let those who are regulated decide whether or not it makes sense," he said. They might pay a huge price, he said, but "they get to make that decision versus government." Tillis' comments came as some Republican presidential hopefuls say parents are justified in sometimes having their children avoid vaccinations generally required for attending school. Vaccinations were not raised at his Monday event. But Tillis said Tuesday, "Vaccinations are important to keeping our kids safe, keeping our schools safe." Tillis, former speaker of the North Carolina House, ousted Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November. He played a key role in reducing state taxes and regulations in the state after Republicans took control of the government.
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I swear we elect idiots to Congress.
Typhoid has to make a comeback tour don’t you know?
You can’t fix stupid. But it can be elected to office.
This is the problem with a phony conservative....they try and flex their conservative muscles in all the wrong places.....and end up looking like dorks.
Why would any Republican go there? Regardless of the merits of the political philosophy underlying the statement he should know the leftist media will present him as a kook.
Is a lobotomy part of the congressional indoctrination process?
They shouldn’t be forced by Federal statute. However they could by state statute. Problem solved.
The Federal government should not be involved in such minutiae as hand-washing by restaurant workers.
Poppy is a little sloppy...
Tillis must be a runaway from a zoo. The man is sick in the head.
Don’t wash your hands but you will get a vaccination?
I would NOT shake hands with such an employee!!!
If his stated goal is to reduce regulatory burden on business then what difference does it make if that burden comes at the state level or the federal level? A burden is a burden is a burden. And apparently some burdens, i.e. forcing employees to wash hands, are wrong while while other burdens, i.e. forcing establishments to post signs thate employees don't wash hands, are perfectly OK.
Is that what he was trying to say, or is that what you wish he had said?
A law FORCING employees to wash their hands is an unenforceable law.
After hearing his opinions on the matter I'm not sure I'd want to shake hands with Tillis.
> Ok so let me see if I have this right. Tillis is against the government forcing restaurants to require that their employees wash their hands after using the bathroom, but for the government forcing restaurants to post signs saying that their employees may or may not have washed their hands after using the bathroom?
I swear we elect idiots to Congress.
I’d say make them take an IQ test but we know they’d rig it for book knowledge that has little, if any, application to real life or common sense. I say take them out to a forest, dump them and strip them of their electronic devices and credit cards and see if they can last a month. If they can it will change them and they will no longer be liberals.
Tillis needs be drug tested!!!
I think what he is saying how involved should the government be? The feds already regulate a bunch and should it really be micro-managing the act of hand-washing?
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