rssHere Come the Hearings on Massey
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 9:47 am
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No date has been set, but congressional leaders are already vowing to hold hearings on the circumstances leading up to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine explosion Monday that killed at least 25 West Virginia coal miners. Here’s the latest release from the House Education and Labor Committee, where Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), who heads the workforce protections subpanel, state they’ll hold hearings “at the appropriate time.”
Over the past few years, we have met too many family members who have suffered the tragic loss of loved ones in a mine disaster. On behalf of the committee, we promised them that we would do everything we could to learn the cause of these tragedies and to keep miners safe. Today, we extend this same promise to the families and community dealing with a devastating loss.
Considering the long list of violations cited at the Upper Big Branch mine, there should be plenty to talk about.
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Comment posted April 7, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
I think it would be just grand if the teabaggerz came out & supported Massey & their CEO (both of whom are big $$ sponsors of the Tea Party). The 'baggerz could bring their signs & posters and chant their support for this shining example of American working-class values. They could threaten Congress and demand theyback off and stop trodding on Massey's “rights” and “freedoms”
Come on Teabaggerz, so what if healthcare reform didn't fall before your mighty roar? You now have a chance to stand up for one of your own—he's being pushed around right now by a bunch of cry-baby miner-widows and their snot-nosed brats. Now these whiners are appealing to Congress to call this humble, misunderstood American corporation to account for something that was probably just God's will. Are you gonna let Pelosi & the Socialist Congressget away with this????
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