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Meatpacking Companies, OSHA Face Investigation Over Coronavirus In Plants

Workers are shown leaving the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind., in May. A House subcommittee is investigating the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants, focusing on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as well as major companies Tyson, Smithfield and JBS. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption

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Meatpacking Companies, OSHA Face Investigation Over Coronavirus In Plants

February 1, 2021 • The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis is seeking documents from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as three of the country's largest meatpacking companies.

House Oversight Committee Chair: Testimony Points To Political Interference At CDC

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who chairs the House's panel on the coronavirus, warned that if the Department of Health and Human Services failed to produce all missing documents by Dec. 15, the panel "will have no choice but to issue subpoenas to compel production." Kevin Lamarque/AP hide caption

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House Oversight Committee Chair: Testimony Points To Political Interference At CDC

December 10, 2020 • Rep. James Clyburn says the Trump Administration may have deliberately tried to "conceal and destroy evidence that senior political appointees interfered" with the CDC's coronavirus response.