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What Republicans Did to Duck Us Today — 5/11/11

May 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM Leave a comment

Unbelievable:

Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly Passes Bill Ending Requirement to Disinfect Municipal Water:

The Assembly has passed AB 23, which would, unless mandated by federal law, end a DNR requirement that municipal water systems be continuously disinfected.

The bill passed 58-35.  Lawmakers backed an amendment by bill author Eric Severson, R-Star Prairie, before turning away 21 Dem amendments.

Dems charged that the law meant the state was walking away from its commitment to provide clean drinking water to the public, listing a wide range of potential water-borne illnesses they said could result from reducing water standards.

Maine GOPers Roll Back Child Labor Laws:

Republicans in Maine’s legislature have been working for months to roll back the state’s child labor laws. Proposals set forth by the GOP include:

• Establishing a 180-day period during which workers under age 20 would earn $5.25 per hour (as opposed to the state’s current minimum wage of $7.50 per hour).
• Eliminating the maximum number of hours a minor over 16 can work during the school week.
• Allowing children to work until 11 p.m. on school nights (current law lets kids go home at 10 p.m.).

Lawmakers in Tennessee Crafting Bill That Would Define Two or More Observant Muslims as a “Sharia Organization:“

“Sharia organization” means any two (2) or more persons conspiring to support of acting in convert in support of, Sharia or in furtherance of the imposition of sharia…

That means, in Tennessee, a Muslim could not form a non-profit that operated a mosque, a religious charity, or any other organization that goes beyond practicing religion in solitude.

Ohio State Representative Wants to Ban Abortion Because China Has too Many Smart Kids, and if we banned abortion we’d have more kids and maybe some of them would be smart too and then we could compete with China.

You win a prize if you can find anything out there about Republicans working on doing what they campaigned on — creating jobs.

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