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Nebraska lawmakers reject push for meatpacking restrictions

by Associated Press
| July 30, 2020 12:03 AM

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's meatpacking plants won't have to worry about any new safety restrictions this year, despite outbreaks of the coronavirus among their workers, after a state lawmaker on Wednesday failed to secure enough support for the idea.

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