{"id":23804,"date":"2016-05-17T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23804"},"modified":"2016-05-17T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T18:35:25","slug":"coalition-urges-congress-to-reject-department-of-labor-overtime-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23804\/coalition-urges-congress-to-reject-department-of-labor-overtime-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Urges Congress to Reject Department of Labor Overtime Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/3104-coalition-urges-congress-to-nullify-department-of-labor-overtime-rule\" target=\"_blank\">a letter sent to Congress today<\/a>, the Center for Individual Freedom (&#8220;CFIF&#8221;) joined a coalition of 17 organizations to express &#8220;strong support for S. 2707 and H.R. 4773, the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act (PWAOA), and all efforts to defund, block, and otherwise nullify the Obama Administration\u2019s effort to change our nation\u2019s overtime rules.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>The letter, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/3104-coalition-urges-congress-to-nullify-department-of-labor-overtime-rule\" target=\"_blank\">organized by the Competitive Enterprise Institute<\/a>, reads in part, &#8220;The bills, sponsored by Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Congressman Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), respectively, would nullify the Department of Labor\u2019s proposed overtime regulation. Specifically, the legislation requires the U.S. Secretary of Labor to conduct a thorough economic analysis on how updating overtime rules would affect small businesses and take into consideration cost-of-living differences across the country, among other research before proposing another overtime rule.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Read the entire letter <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/3104-coalition-urges-congress-to-nullify-department-of-labor-overtime-rule\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter sent to Congress today, the Center for Individual Freedom (&#8220;CFIF&#8221;) joined a coalition of 17 organizations to express &#8220;strong support for S. 2707 and H.R. 4773, the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act (PWAOA), and all efforts to defund, block, and otherwise nullify the Obama Administration\u2019s effort to change our nation\u2019s overtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[651,2135,4875,3970,4874],"class_list":["post-23804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-competitive-enterprise-institute","tag-department-of-labor","tag-overtime-rule","tag-tim-scott","tag-tim-walberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23807,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions\/23807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}