Senate Appropriations Committee votes against Bush on overtime
Today the Republican-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee voted to reverse the Bush administration's new overtime regulations, with Republican Senators Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado voting with the Democrats, and the workers. As you recall, last week the House of Representatives (also Republican-controlled) voted to protect overtime pay as well. Of course, both the Senate and House voted repeatedly last year to protect overtime pay, but last-minute back-room finagling kept that protection from becoming law.
Will more back-room finagling this year leave overtime protection out of the final bill again? Or will the measure remain in the $149.5 billion appropriations bill? If so, George W. Bush has promised threatened to veto the whole thing.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:34 PM
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