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...workers have had since 1938. Under the legislation, each hour of overtime worked would equal 1/1/2 hours of paid time off with regular pay. Employees would have to consent to the comp time option and employers would have the right to not offer it. While the bill had strong GOP backing in the House, most Democrats and union leaders were against it from the start. The chief concern was that employers may be tempted to abuse the law by forcing employees who want overtime pay to accept comp time instead. "In the real world, if your boss tells...
...only too happy to provide. According to Dick Armey, Americans spend 5.4 billion hours a year complying with the tax code, more than is spent building every car, truck and van in the U.S. Rather than upgrade the computer system to deal with a complicated tax structure, the GOP says that the government should simplify the existing code. "We have as an objective ending the Internal Revenue Service as we know it," Newt Gingrich said in Congress Monday. Whether the reforms come at the margins or at the fundamental structural level of the tax code, the Speaker's objective...
...wave of al legations of campaign finance improprieties on both sides of the aisle, Senate Republicans reversed course by agreeing to allow Senator Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation to look into "soft money" donations. Fearing that any probe woul d wind up biting them as well, the GOP leadership had previously rammed through a deal that would limit Thompson to investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks like a mess, it is not clear whether laws...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Republicans are wasting little time in reopening the debate over partial-birth abortions after a prominent abortion-rights activist admitted he lied about how often the procedure is performed. GOP leaders are busy lining up votes as the House prepares to once again take up a bill banning abortions using the controversial partial-birth technique. So far, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum says he's counted 62 'yes' votes, enough for Senate passage but still five short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. An opportunity to renew the debate opened up after after Ron Fitzsimmons...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a move that probably means the end of any GOP hopes for a balanced budget amendment this year, Senator Robert Torricelli, the last Senate holdout on the issue, said he will not support the measure. With 11 Democrats already on their side, Republicans had been counting on the New Jersey Democrat to provide the deciding 67th yes vote. Torricelli reportedly told a Democratic colleague he would not back the measure after he failed on a 63-37 vote Wednesday to win changes to the language of the proposed amendment. He wanted to make it easier...