House Votes to Block Bush Overtime Regulations

[Todd33]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArt...ws&storyID=6197465

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives defied President Bush on Thursday and voted to block his administration's controversial new overtime regulations for white-collar workers.

In a rare election-year victory for organized labor on Capitol Hill, the House approved an amendment to a spending bill to deny funds to administer the regulations that opponents say would cost an estimated 6 million white- and blue-collar workers overtime pay.

Republican leaders rejected those claims and, aides said, would seek to kill the amendment once the $142.5 billion funding bill for the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services reached a House-Senate conference committee.

That is what Republican leaders did last year with an earlier bipartisan attempt by both chambers to stop the regulations drafted by Bush's Labor Department and which took effect last month.

"Backers of this amendment got their victory and press release today," a top Republican aide said. "But we're going to eliminate this amendment because it would be bad policy."

Democrats said it would be politically riskier for Republicans to kill the amendment this year as the Nov. 2 elections near with the state of the American worker a top campaign issue. But Republicans could wait until after Election Day.

I guess keeping your job trumps following the leader.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Todd33

I guess keeping your job trumps following the leader.

The vote was Bush's second election-season defeat in Congress in two days. On Wednesday the Senate disregarded a White House veto threat and voted to prohibit Bush from giving federal immigration jobs to private workers.
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Come on America, it's about time we take out the trash and vote every Neocon out of Office!

 

[arsbanned]

That's great! I'm surprised. On a darker note, however, Bill Frist has been quoted as saying "It's the will of the American people that the assault weapon ban should expire and it will expire." and "Only a very small, tiny, tiny portion of the American people disagree with the war in Iraq."
They passed a false flag waving resolution today claiming linkage between 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Henry Hyde has the balls to claim there is direct linkage! He said "The Iraq war is our response to 9/11."
WTF is wrong with people!
Sorry for the OT.

 

[CycloWizard]

EPI again rears its ugly head with biased statistics. Amazing that every other firm has contradicted their claim that 6 million will lose overtime pay. They throw a figure out there, now every union group is flying off the handle. Unfortunately for everyone, data doesn't really support their claims, as usual. I can just as quickly post a source from the other side of the political spectrum with a much better reputation.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/cda04-08.cfm

 

[Todd33]

Ya, a right wing neocon think tank, that's about as unbiased as it gets.

Edit: They don't even present new numbers, they just cut and paste the bush folks and then add this:

Therefore, policymakers and the general public should discount EPI?s recent analysis.

LOL.

 

[Ldir]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Todd33

I guess keeping your job trumps following the leader.

The vote was Bush's second election-season defeat in Congress in two days. On Wednesday the Senate disregarded a White House veto threat and voted to prohibit Bush from giving federal immigration jobs to private workers.
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Come on America, it's about time we take out the trash and vote every Neocon out of Office!

:thumbsup:

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
That's great! I'm surprised. On a darker note, however, Bill Frist has been quoted as saying "It's the will of the American people that the assault weapon ban should expire and it will expire." and "Only a very small, tiny, tiny portion of the American people disagree with the war in Iraq."
They passed a false flag waving resolution today claiming linkage between 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Henry Hyde has the balls to claim there is direct linkage! He said "The Iraq war is our response to 9/11."
WTF is wrong with people!
Sorry for the OT.

dear god! thats an amazing quote.
do you have a source i could check out on that?

 

[TheGameIs21]

Originally posted by: Todd33
http://www.reuters.com/newsArt...ws&storyID=6197465

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives defied President Bush on Thursday and voted to block his administration's controversial new overtime regulations for white-collar workers.

In a rare election-year victory for organized labor on Capitol Hill, the House approved an amendment to a spending bill to deny funds to administer the regulations that opponents say would cost an estimated 6 million white- and blue-collar workers overtime pay.

Republican leaders rejected those claims and, aides said, would seek to kill the amendment once the $142.5 billion funding bill for the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services reached a House-Senate conference committee.

That is what Republican leaders did last year with an earlier bipartisan attempt by both chambers to stop the regulations drafted by Bush's Labor Department and which took effect last month.

"Backers of this amendment got their victory and press release today," a top Republican aide said. "But we're going to eliminate this amendment because it would be bad policy."

Democrats said it would be politically riskier for Republicans to kill the amendment this year as the Nov. 2 elections near with the state of the American worker a top campaign issue. But Republicans could wait until after Election Day.

I guess keeping your job trumps following the leader.

Eventually some libs are going to start saying that this proves that the Party is wanting to oust Bush... People just need to remember that this is how the government operates. The Presidents of past have had MANY bills blocked for one reason or another. This is just another example. This is NOT a bad thing for anyone.

 

[Red Dawn]

I wonder what the Meathead Hannity is going to say about this?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
That's great! I'm surprised. On a darker note, however, Bill Frist has been quoted as saying "It's the will of the American people that the assault weapon ban should expire and it will expire." and "Only a very small, tiny, tiny portion of the American people disagree with the war in Iraq."
They passed a false flag waving resolution today claiming linkage between 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Henry Hyde has the balls to claim there is direct linkage! He said "The Iraq war is our response to 9/11."
WTF is wrong with people!
Sorry for the OT.

Well at some level he is right. We went to war again Iraq because of 9/11. It was a useful tool.

 

[chess9]

Congress is worried about their own hides. With Bush no shoo-in they've got to be careful. Losing the Presidency is one thing, losing their cushy jobs is another.

-Robert