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USA: GOP Congressman And Senate Hopeful, Blasts Child Labor Regulations – Huffington Post

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Posted February 2, 2012

In Agriculture, child labor in agriculture, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, U.S. News, US Legislation

Denny Rehberg, GOP Congressman And Senate Hopeful, Blasts Child Labor Regulations
Huffington Post
vowed Thursday to use his funding powers to stop the Obama administration from implementing new child–labor rules pertaining to agricultural work, accusing the “urban” Labor Department of meddling in a “rural” industry it doesn’t understand.
Opposition to farm child–labor rule continuesBillings Gazette

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