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riversedge's JournalEmployers nationwide gave raises to avoid paying overtime. Now they're taking them back.
ICYMI very sad story.
Employers nationwide gave raises to avoid paying overtime. Now they're taking them back.
https://mic.com/articles/162196/employers-nationwide-gave-raises-to-avoid-paying-overtime-now-they-re-taking-them-back#.dQfrzskmv
By Jack Smith IV
December 16, 2016
Garrett Hutcheson, a supervisor at a catering supply company in the southwest, was told he was getting an enormous raise: a $7,000 bump to his salary of around $40,000. The extra cash meant he could move his young family out of his girlfriend's parents' house. Instead, he'll be staying there, working long night shifts without overtime pay.
"This would've gotten us on our feet," Hutcheson said. "I've still got hope, but I'm not optimistic."
Pay increases like the one Hutcheson got, the result of a regulatory rule change by the Obama administration, were set to help more than 4 million workers. Just the expectation of the new rule triggered raises for workers across the country, including managers at Walmart, Nationwide Health Insurance and at least half a dozen universities.
Now, as a result of the ongoing tussle between the administration and federal courts regarding overtime pay that began in 2014, an injunction against the rule means a victory for big business interests — and rescinding of raises for Hutcheson and an unclear number of fellow workers....................................
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Republicans Are Planning to Rush Through Jeff Sessions’s Confirmation Hearing via @thenation
Republicans Are Planning to Rush Through Jeff Sessions’s Confirmation Hearing
https://www.thenation.com/article/republicans-are-planning-to-rush-through-jeff-sessionss-confirmation-hearing/
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By Joan WalshTwitter
Today 11:31 am
Trump attorney general pick Jeff Sessions speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York on November 17, 2016. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)
The Nation has learned that Senate Democrats will only get to call four witnesses to testify about the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to Attorney General. ...........................
Two days after eight NAACP members, including the group’s president Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested occupying Sessions’s senate office in Mobile, Alabama, the battle lines are drawn for the first serious ideological confrontation of the Trump administration. ...................
In late November, Senate Democrats, led by outgoing Judiciary Committee ranking member Patrick Leahy, asked Republican committee chair Chuck Grassley to schedule four days of hearings and to include a larger number of witnesses called by Sessions opponents, given the nominee’s controversial views on voting rights, civil rights, women’s rights and immigration. .............................
Current ranking member Dianne Feinstein also asked Grassley to push the Sessions hearing back beyond January 10, because the Alabama senator submitted remarkably incomplete answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire—you can read what’s missing here—but Grassley has refused.
Now multiple sources close to the Senate discussions, as well as advocacy group leaders, speaking on the condition of anonymity since negotiations with Grassley and his staff are nominally ongoing, say that Grassley has also refused to expand the number of witnesses, restricting Democrats to calling only four people over two days who can testify to Sessions’s long, controversial record on issues of civil rights. .........................
.................... In addition to all of those issues, he will be in charge of keeping on top of Trump’s myriad conflicts of interests and other legal challenges. Sessions is close to the president-elect and was one of his first supporters among elected officials.
Leahy, who is still on the Senate Judiciary Committee, recently wrote Grassley that Sessions’s incomplete answers are “increasingly troubling” given that “as a former ranking member of this Committee, Senator Sessions is well aware of the seriousness with which this Committee takes the confirmation process.” In fact, in 2010 Sessions suggested that Obama judicial nominee Goodwin Liu might be committing a felony because of his allegedly incomplete committee disclosures.
Also troubling to Democrats is Sessions’s refusal, so far, to recuse himself from voting on his own nomination. [/b......................................
Senate Democrats have lots of backup. This week 1,226 law professors wrote Grassley to oppose Sessions’s nomination. “Nothing in Senator Sessions’ public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge,” the letter said. While the Trump transition team has been hyping Sessions’s involvement in desegregation lawsuits while a U.S. attorney, three DOJ lawyers wrote a Washington Post op-ed explaining that he played “no significant role” in the cases that have been described. “Sessions has done many things throughout his 40-year career. Protecting civil rights is not one of them.” .............
Trump Blasts Media Over Assange Tweets Ahead of Intel Briefing
Source: Bloomberg
January 5, 2017, 8:10 AM CST
President-elect Donald Trump called the media “dishonest" for its coverage of his Twitter posts this week on Julian Assange, saying the press was wrong to assert that he agreed with the fugitive WikiLeaks founder.
“The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people,” Trump said in a pair of tweets early Thursday, “to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against ‘Intelligence’ when in fact I am a big fan!”
In a series of tweets starting late Tuesday evening, Trump called an alleged delay in his intelligence briefing on Russian hacking of the U.S. elections “very strange” and went on to quote an interview with Assange, who said on a Fox News opinion show that “a 14-year-old” could be responsible for breaches of computers at Democratic Party offices last year............................................
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-05/trump-blasts-media-over-assange-tweets-ahead-of-intel-briefing?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%253D=socialflow-twitter-politics
Trump has taken on the fox news mantra of We report-You decide. #fakenews
"“The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people,” Trump said in a pair of tweets early Thursday, “to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against ‘Intelligence’ when in fact I am a big fan!”
Listening to McConnell on cspan now. Barely a sentence goes by with LIES-outright lies and
dissing of Obama. on and on.
TRUMP goes on Twitter tirade against DEMOS...Old boy must've still not opened the spell check link I
https://twitter.com/LawyerRogelio/status/817012531084623873
RogelioGarcia Lawyer ?@LawyerRogelio 26m26 minutes ago
TRUMP goes on Twitter tirade against DEMOS...Old boy must've still not opened the spell check link I sent him.
SOME REPLIES:
Carol Silver ?@Teach3ca 19m19 minutes ago
@LawyerRogelio @masg66 The real President wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review yesterday. No spelling errors.
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Doug Spiker ?@TaxSnafu 9m9 minutes ago
@LawyerRogelio Bad news America. Not only did we elect an ego-maniacal narcissist, we elected one who can't spell. What woes will betide us?
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TracyAnnB ?@mytracyann 23m23 minutes ago
@LawyerRogelio TWITLER he is...fuk.
Trumps criticism of intelligence on Russia is dividing Hill GOP
Source: washington post
By Karoun Demirjian and Greg Miller January 4 at 9:49 PM
President-elect Donald Trump’s broadside against the intelligence community is dividing Capitol Hill Republicans, with some ready to pounce on Trump’s skepticism that Russia interfered with the U.S. elections and others urging a more cautious approach.
The resulting schism could widen as Congress begins probing the CIA’s charges that Russia intervened in the November elections in an attempt to help Trump, potentially becoming one of the first significant intraparty breaches of the Trump presidency.
U.S. critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, such as Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), want to go full-bore on holding Russia to account for its suspected election interference. But they may be slowed by GOP senators who prefer to wait to hear the intelligence community’s evidence and for Trump to be installed in the White House.
When asked whether he would be influenced by Trump’s Tuesday tweet about a supposedly delayed “Intelligence” briefing on “so-called” Russian hacking, McCain said flatly, “No.”
McCain will hold a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday on “foreign cyber threats” that is expected to center on Russia. Intelligence officials ............................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-criticism-of-intelligence-on-russia-is-dividing-hill-gop/2017/01/04/1ffc1a04-d2a1-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.c50b133828db
The hearing has just started
[Secret CIA assessment: Russia was trying to help Trump win White House]
Kissinger, McCain have 'no doubt' about Russian hacking
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WashPost View:Stop trying to hush up the truth about election #RussiaHacking
The fact that Republicans --Mitch McConnell does NOT want a select committee--will not have a Select committee sickens me.
The Post's View
Stop trying to hush up the truth about election hacking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-trying-to-hush-up-the-truth-about-election-hacking/2017/01/04/bf8c286a-d2ac-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.c9bf767263cc
President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
By Editorial Board January 4 at 6:58 PM
SOME REPUBLICANS — including President-elect Donald Trump — appear to be entirely unconcerned about the strong evidence that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign in order to create uncertainty in the presidential race, or tilt it toward Mr. Trump. Either that, or they are determined to bury the story of an unprecedented intrusion into American democracy by a hostile foreign power. There’s no other way to understand a new set of tweets by Mr. Trump, or the sandbagging by Republican leaders of proposals for a thorough investigation.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) led a bipartisan effort by four senators last month to advocate for an independent investigation by a select committee. This is a reasonable proposal; certainly, the hacking is at least as significant as the Benghazi, Libya, affair, which was subject to eight congressional investigations, mostly led by Republicans, including a select committee. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is reported by Politico to be steadfast against a select committee probe and wants to keep the matter in the hands of the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee.
That could have the effect of preventing the release of embarrassing facts about the election of Mr. Trump. An Intelligence Committee probe would likely mean more secret proceedings and less disclosure to the public. Only 525 of the 6,700 pages of the panel’s report on CIA torture have been released, thanks in part to the efforts of its chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), a staunch Trump supporter who was named as one of his national security advisers during the campaign.
Mr. Trump also continues to deny reality. Early Wednesday, he endorsed an obfuscation by Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, the website that disseminated the stolen emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, among others. Mr. Trump tweeted: “Julian Assange said ‘a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta’ — why was DNC so careless?” We have our own questions: Why does Mr. Trump give Mr. Assange more weight than the U.S. intelligence agencies? Why is the president-elect not outraged at the possibility of foreign intervention in the American political process?
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Incoming Trump press secretary heckled in Chicago
Source: reuters
January 4, 2017 8:56 PM EST - A protester interrupted an event at the University of Chicago where President-elect Donald Trump's incoming press secretary Sean Spicer participated in a panel discussion. (Reuters)
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/incoming-trump-press-secretary-heckled-in-chicago/2017/01/04/c034756c-d2e6-11e6-9651-54a0154cf5b3_video.
Tune into Maddow -she is talking of how quickly the Tea Party formed after Obama was
sworn in.
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