SENATE RENEWS EFFORT TO PASS ASBESTOS BILL
Year Three for the legislation aiming to settle over one million injury suits
Asbestos has been used broadly in domestic, commercial and military applications due to its heat resistant qualities but has been proven to be cancer causing in many who were exposed to it. Great Britain took action on the adverse health effects of asbestos dust in 1906. US Insurance companies saw the problem in 1918. Massachusetts began paying claimants for exposure in 1926 and despite all of that, US shipbuilders during WW II and a mine in Libby, Montana blatantly exposed workers to asbestos. The US Clean Air Act of 1970 registered it as a hazardous air pollutant, but the sins of the past now come home to roost. S852 story here..
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How about those Steelers? HRES 670
Dentists help the poor SRES369
Congenital heart disease research under-funded despite number one killer status SCR69
Senate urges no reductions to National Guard end strength SRES 355
House and Senate express condolences in wake of West Virginia mine accidents HCR331
Perhaps the only business that grows, effortlessly, as time passes HRES 389
Commending Catholic Schools HRES 657
Fifteen million American kids need it HRES 660
Looking like a preliminary for further privatization the US Post Office gets some new rules S662
Still paying out for Katrina; $50 million for election equipment S2166
PRESIDENT'S
BUDGET CONTINUES TO CUT PROGRAMS; URGES PERMANENT TAX CUTS