Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., stood beside President Bush today at the White House as the President signed a Congressional resolution overturning a Clinton OSHA regulation governing repetitive motion injuries in the workplace.

Enzi, who chairs the Senate subcommittee with oversight authority over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), led the floor debate to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn an OSHA ergonomics rule that, "could have hurt workers and consumers alike by paralyzing businesses across the country and causing dramatic price hikes for goods and services," said Enzi.

Debate on the issue came earlier this month and in a March 6 bipartisan vote of 56-44 the Senate used the CRA to overturn the rule. The House voted to overturn the rule the next day in a vote of 223-206. This was the first significant use of the CRA, which was passed unanimously by the Senate and signed into law in 1996.

Enzi has committed to working with Democrats, ergonomic rule proponents and others to find workable solutions that will help alleviate ergonomic problems in the workforce.

"I believe we need to address the ergonomics issue soon. We need to take a look at what businesses are already doing, existing scientific data and comments made on the failed rule to pull this thing together to form a workable and practical solution to the problem," said Enzi.

Sens. Don Nickles, R-Okla., Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., Christopher Bond, R-Mo., and Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., were also central advocates in the successful use of the CRA to overturn the flawed rule.