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A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 51% fear the federal government most when it comes to health care decisions, while only 39% fear private insurance companies more.
According to inspection data from the Office of Compliance,more than 70 percent of congressional offices violate OSHA safety standards that they force private companies to comply with.
Thirty-one of the House Democrats who attacked Toyota during congressional hearings this week received campaign cash from the United Auto Workers, a union that owns competing car company Chrysler.
Favorable views of labor unions have plummeted since 2007, with a new Pew pollnow showing that more Americans (42%) view unions unfavorably compared to only 41% of Americans who have a favorable impression of big labor's purpose and power.
President Obama told members of the Business Roundtable - a consortium of CEOs from the nation's top companies - to stop equating his policy agenda withsocialism.
