What happened to the administration's July plan not to ask for additional moneys for Afghani reconstruction?

I do not know how much time we have left, but I want to get into a bit on Afghanistan.

Conditions have changed, the $800 million is now $1.2 billion.

That's awesome. Half of the GDP of Iraq.

I'd also like to know how the $20 billion will be spent.

I guess we can stretch appropriations to mean what we want.

So this is half the GDP. I'm just saying, if you were spending that much on reconstruction in the United States, half the GDP, it would be $5 trillion in 1 year in the United States.

This is why we are concerned that the administration will keep coming back for more and more money for Iraq.

Forget about the Washington Post. On March 17 the administration said it would spend $820 million.

I just wanted to get that cleared up.

But does it list a salary?

But do not take away the protections that workers currently have.

I would like to get a little bit to the bottom, whether it is 644,000 workers or 8 million.

I have got to get a copy of that too.

I was disturbed that he believed that Congress gave the Labor Secretary authority to broadly define the terms of the Federal Labor Standards Act and the overtime protections within that law.

So what I hope we can find out at today's hearing is does this updated regulation reflect the intent of Congress that overtime protection and the 40-hour work week applies to all American workers with very few narrow exceptions.

The GAO found that employees who do not have overtime protection are twice as likely to work overtime than those who are covered.

So, again, since we rejected a salary ceiling, why is there a separate test for highly compensated workers in this proposed rule?