The Nation - News from Aug. 6, 1987
The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee rejected President Reagan’s nomination of a veteran House Republican aide to head the Mine Safety and Health Administration. On a 9-7 party-line vote and despite last-minute appeals and deals offered by Labor Secretary William E. Brock III, the panel’s Democrats defeated Reagan’s nomination of Dorothy Strunk to become the chief enforcer of the nation’s mine safety laws.
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