senator Chuck Grassley says a labor department proposal to restrict child labor on farms doesn’t pass the “common sense” test…and he’s written the Labor Secretary urging the idea be scuttled.

Grassley has joined other republicans in complaining to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, whose agency wants to reduce the high rate of child injuries and fatalities from farm machinery and animals.

But Grassley argues some of labor’s proposed restrictions are ‘ridiculous’