Worker Safety Agencies Would Get Flat Funding From Senate Panel

Worker safety funding would remain nearly level in a fiscal 2019 plan approved June 28 by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

By a 30-1 vote, the committee backed a spending proposal for the Department of Labor’s workplace safety agencies and related offices. The spending plan now goes to the full Senate for a vote, on a date still to be set, and then will later go through reconciliation with the House’s version.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) was the lone dissenter.

Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and the senior Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), said the bill contains ...