Not only has this administration cost us 3 million jobs during the 3 years plus that the President has been in office, more jobs lost than any President since the Great Depression, but now, to add insult to injury, the hardest working Americans, the ones who say we are going to keep going, not just 40 hours a week but whatever it takes for our family, those working hard with time away from their family, working overtime to pay the bills, to get the money together for college, would the Senator from Iowa share with those who are following this debate what this administration has done to overtime pay for Americans for the first time in history?
On the recordFebruary 4, 2004
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Discussing job losses and changes to overtime pay during a Senate debate.
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