Jeremiah Poff is an education and culture reporter for the Washington Examiner. A Virginia native, he previously worked for the Cardinal Newman Society, the Department of Education, and the College Fix. He graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2019 with a degree in journalism and a minor in human life studies.
House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx is inquiring whether or not a series of biting incidents by President Joe Biden's dog Commander have made the White House an unsafe work environment.
In a Wednesday letter to the president and acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, Foxx said that White House was obligated to maintain a safe work environment but that"it is failing to uphold this responsibility," citing a series of biting incidents involving the president's dog."Recent reports concerning White House staff and U.S.
Foxx noted that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which oversees workplace safety, would have jurisdiction over the White House's workplace safety procedures. The agency is located within the Department of Labor, which is overseen by Foxx's committee. Commander, the president's German shepherd, was revealed last month to have bitten staff and Secret Service personnel on numerous occasions after the conservative group Judicial Watch obtained government documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The biting incidents even resulted in at least one hospital visit for the victim.
In her letter, Foxx requested that the Department of Labor provide any documents alleging that the White House was an unsafe work environment and noted that the presidential office was subject to the same workplace safety rules as the private sector."The White House should not embrace an attitude of 'rules for thee, but not for me' when it comes to workplace safety," she wrote.
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