Senate votes to halt Bush's overtime rule

Senate votes to halt Bush's overtime rule

Opponents say millions of white-collar workers would be denied pay

HELEN DEWAR

Washington Post


WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to block new Labor Department rules that critics said would deny overtime pay to millions of white-collar workers.

The election year snub is an embarrassing rebuff to the Bush administration on a politically sensitive jobs issue.

The Senate voted 52 to 47 to scrap the new rule despite recent changes to address earlier criticism, an intense lobbying campaign by Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and a last-ditch GOP effort to avert defeat by proposing a long list of jobs for which overtime pay could not be eliminated.

Although the GOP concessions were approved unanimously, they were not sufficient to satisfy five moderate Republicans who broke ranks to vote with nearly all Democrats in favor of keeping the administration from cutting anyone's overtime pay


http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/8591349.htm

Yes !

See this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x531172

Yay Democrats!

the rest are sheep.

Instead, I get another story about Hamill and his wife coming to see him. What's next, they'll announce that he's taking regular dumps finally?

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