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When Congress gets back in session the week of April 24, some of the lawmakers’ top priorities will be to pass a 2017 budget and to confirm Alexander Acosta as Labor secretary.
Acosta, a former federal prosecutor and current dean of Florida International University’s law school, frustrated Democrats during his confirmation hearings by declining to comment on how – or even whether – he would enforce occupational safety and health regulations such as OSHA’s rule to limit crystalline silica exposure (which the agency recently announced would not be enforced until Sept. 23, 2017 - a 90-day delay from the original enforcement date).
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