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Byline: T. Shawn Taylor
CHICAGO _ The Bush administration's effort to overhaul overtime rules suffered a major setback Wednesday after a divided U.S. Senate approved a measure to block rule changes that would deny workers overtime pay.
The Republican-led chamber, defying a White House veto threat, voted 54-45 to attach an amendment to a $138 billion spending bill that would prevent the Labor Department from changing white-collar overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
"Senate Democrats, joined by six Republicans, stood with working Americans and took a critical step toward turning back a Bush administration proposal to take overtime pay away from millions of people," said Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D. "During these hard economic times, the last thing we should be doing is cutting Americans' pay."
But Wednesday's victory was only the beginning of ...