1. A second House bill would repeal the rule altogether. 2. Bush cannot just flat out repeal the rules. 3. But if that rule is repealed, there is a question as to whether the old standard would automatically go back into effect. 4. But Mann said the law would repeal federal rules defining income and leave that to the states. 5. By the afternoon, however, Pataki made clear that he had ended all discussion of repealing the rule and that it would remain in place. 6. Cisneros said Congress had repealed rules that traditionally reserved public housing for the very poor. 7. Democrats have become concerned that the Bush administration has not released a workplace safety plan even though ergonomics rules were repealed a year ago. 8. He said Bush had put the interests of corporations ahead of workers with actions like repealing ergonomics rules and enacting a tax cut that Yokich said favored millionaires. 9. If House Republicans want to repeal those rules, they should be willing to debate them openly. 10. Lobbyists for the restaurant industry acknowledged that they had inserted that language into the bill to give them a weapon to repeal the rules in the four areas. |