Democrats are trying to save overtime for 8 million employees...

kentuck

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Wed Jan-21-04 03:10 PM
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Democrats are trying to save overtime for 8 million employees...

Let's hope they appreciate it. No doubt, their overtime is worth much more than Bush's taxcut. That's a lot of votes...I cannot understand why the WH would gamble with alienating such a large number of voters? Perhaps Democrats should remind them about who is trying to screw them out of their overtime pay? Seems like it would be a good group to recruit as new Democrats?

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liberalnurse

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Wed Jan-21-04 03:14 PM
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1. Harkin has been the front runner on this issue!

He is a true gladiator!

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baby_bear

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Wed Jan-21-04 03:21 PM
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2. Harkin speaking on CSPAN2 right now

All about the nullification of Congress' rejection of the labor bill, except for the part upping the minimum to 22,000/yr.

He's emphasizing the Labor Dept's "tips" to employers on how to get around that last bit. (See http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0106-03.htm)

Also, for a lark, see http://www.theonion.com/4003/news2.html

Go Harkin!

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