by Fed Up Texas Chick, The Tenpenny Report:
You have probably never cleared your schedule to watch a boring government hearing. After all, we can all think of 100 other things we’d rather do. However, the hearing held Friday, September 29 was pure fire. When a bureaucrat from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) testified to Congress, he was lambasted by representatives of the American people. It appears that this hearing has served as the canary in the coal mine for what appears to be happening to all government agencies that mandated the COVID-19 jabs. The Congressional hearing was held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, and Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) grilled OSHA Assistant Secretary Douglas L. Parker. Suffice to say he was sweating bullets at the end.
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What is OSHA?
OSHA was established in 1970 by Congress, with the express intent of ensuring safe and healthy working conditions. The agency is part of the Department of Labor. It is small in comparison to other federal agencies, and has about 100 offices nationwide with about 2,000 inspectors across the country. These inspectors go into manufacturing plants to ensure adequate protections like machine guards, eye protection, and protection from falls and other workplace hazards.
In 2021, the agency of unelected bureaucrats took it upon themselves to issue a controversial vaccine mandate. OSHA issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) which the agency claimed was aimed at protecting employees in companies with 100 or more workers from the risk of COVID-19 in the workplace. Only workers who worked from home or strictly outdoors were exempt. Anyone who reported to a workplace was mandated. And of course, the mandate included a “show your papers” clause; OSHA even required employers to maintain a written record of vaccinated versus unvaccinated employees and make them available for OSHA inspection.
Mass litigation ensued. A judge put a stay on the order, only to have it lifted by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case was eventually heard by the US Supreme Court which struck down the mandate. If implemented, 84 million Americans could have been forcibly jabbed with an experimental, and now known to be a very dangerous, drug.
The OSHA ETS either required employees to be vaccinated or to have weekly COVID tests. Medical and religious exemptions were theoretically allowed. OSHA couldn’t wait to issue citations for noncompliance. States with OSHA-approved state plans (California and Oregon are examples) were set to issue additional mandates.
These agencies likely never expected this turn of events. People are awake and vaccine-injured, and these bureaucrats are finding themselves in the hot seat. Parker started his answers to Miller’s question with the usual smugness that we’ve all come to know from these guys and gals. He actually countered Miller, telling her that the agency never mandated anything, giving employers a choice. Oh really? Do you think we are stupid? Here is OSHA’s very boldly-worded ETS from November 4, 2021. The mandate was strict and stringent, giving employers only until December 5 to adopt a written policy; employees were required to comply by January 4, 2022.
Rep. Mary Miller referred to the sweeping mandate, questioning OSHA’s authority to issue and enforce it: “Thank God the Supreme Court ruled on that and stopped you from doing that. You’re an unelected bureaucrat, and you do not have the power to force 84 million people to take an experimental vaccine or show their papers. You tried to fire 84 million American workers, but do you believe the court was wrong?”
Even after the SCOTUS ruling, Parker made a statement to Reuters saying that the SCOTUS decision was “unfortunate. He doubled down, telling Reuters that OSHA would not stop “encouraging” employers to take these measures.
Miller asked Parker if he understood the ramifications of his measures. If the ETS had passed and Americans refused to comply, the economy would have ground to a halt. Miller asked Parker what his plan was for that. This is when Parker became very vague and started to sweat bullets: ‘I’d just like to say you are inept. It would have terrorized our economy if the American workers refused to comply, and it would have put 84 million American workers out of work.”
Miller then dropped the mother of all bombs by officially introducing an amendment to strip OSHA of both funding and power because the agency had gone far, far beyond its limited-scope mission.
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