Matt Cover
CNSNews.com
3/15/2012
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis faced congressional opposition Wednesday over the Obama administration’s proposed regulations that would curtail what choreschildren are allowed to do on their own family’s farm.
Among other things, the Labor Department wants to bar children under age 16 from participating in the cultivation, harvest and curing of tobacco; operating almost all “power-driven” equipment; and working with animals in feed lots, grain silos, stockyards, or livestock auctions.
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) told Solis that the proposed regulations would change the way family farms work, preventing farm kids from learning their parents’ trade.
“This is an issue that fundamentally alters an historic and familiar relationship [that is] so important to America and particularly important to rural America,” Moran said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
Sen. Moran called the regulations “overly broad,”…
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Related: Complex Societies Need Simple Laws. “We need to end the orgy of rule-making at once and embrace the simple rules that true liberals like America’s founders envisioned,” writes John Stossel
Update: Family Farms Face Crippling Regulation, at The Blaze.
