(The Hill) -- TheHill.com reports that "30 senators are calling on Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to withdraw immediately proposed federal rules that would limit the work that young people can perform on farms." The effort is being led by U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). According to the story, "the new regulations would forbid children younger than 16 years of age from completing 'agricultural work with animals and in pesticide handling, timber operations, manure pits and storage bins,'" while prohibiting them "from handling most 'power-driven equipment' and from contributing to the 'cultivation, harvesting and curing of tobacco.'" Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) said "the rules are proof that officials in the Obama administration do not understand rural life. 'You've got a president of the United States ... from Chicago, you've got a director for secretary of Labor who's pushing this from Los Angeles, and you have to think to yourself, do you have any idea what it's like not just to run an agricultural business in a rural state ... but to raise a family in one.'"
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