I made that commitment in 1970 when I took an early active role in the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. the first comprehensive attempt in this Nations history to enforce workplace health and safety rules. I reaffirmed that commitment in 1977 when I was the floor leader during passage of the amendments to the Federal Coal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1969. In 1986. when the Secretary of Labor was moving too slowly in adopting a field sanitation standard for migrant farm workers. I introduced legislation to create that field sanitation standard statutorily. It came as a surprise to no one that shortly after hearings on that legislation. the field sanitation standard was formally adopted by OSHA.