Barbara Boxer: “On this issue, we will not back down. We will stand together with many of our colleagues. Interestingly, a majority of…”

“On this issue, we will not back down. We will stand together with many of our colleagues. Interestingly, a majority of the Senate already voted with the Senator. All we are asking is give us a vote on behalf of the policemen, the policewomen, the first responders, the firefighters, the nurses, the paramedics. Let us make sure we do not take away their overtime pay because to do so would be an enormous hardship on them and on their families at a time when we should be elevating them in status and saying to them, thank you, not only in pictures that we love to show with our arms around them--and we all do that--but in deeds. We really mean what we say, and we say you will not lose your overtime pay. I hope we can get a vote on this important amendment and move on to the rest of the bill which is quite important.”