Senate Panel Votes to Derail New OT Rules

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congress-Overtime.html

September 15, 2004
Senate Panel Votes to Derail New OT Rules
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:48 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate committee defied President Bush and voted Wednesday to derail new federal overtime rules that critics say would prevent 6 million American workers from getting the bonus pay.

The Republican-run Senate Appropriations Committee approved the provision blocking the rules by a vote of 16-13. Two Republicans -- Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who is seeking re-election this year, and Ben Knighthorse Campbell of Colorado, who is retiring -- joined Democrats in supporting the proposal.

The language was offered by Sen. Tom Harkin, D- Iowa, who said new Bush administration overtime rules that took effect on Aug. 23 would deny the extra pay to many workers who had received it.

Harkin said the new rules are ``anti-worker, anti-job growth, and anything but family friendly.''

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1. The news is good today...except for Congress voting for their pay raises.