Is your vision for us to stay in Iraq?

That is the most honest answer I have ever heard yet.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

I just wanted to get that cleared up.

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.

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.

I have got to get a copy of that too.

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

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

But does it list a salary?

I mean, we are open for suggestions, written suggestions, that you might have on some little fixes we might do.

Well, if you have got some suggestions on how we do that, I would like to know.