On May 16, 1995, President Clinton spent 18 minutes on a speech about OSHA, setting an unofficial record. One veteran agency official guessed that Clinton spoke longer on OSHA than all the past presidents combined.
The occasion was a special White House event to announce initiatives aimed at creating "the new OSHA," according to press handouts. The President, Vice President Gore, and Labor Secretary Reich met with a crowd of several hundred at a small metal fabricating factory a few miles from the White House in a show of support for agency chief Joe Dear and his efforts to change how OSHA operates.