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week, would rather have overtime pay for additional hours on the job? you get your calls and -- ents you can also join us on twitter, facebook, or send us an e-mail. cspanwj.er handle is passed largely along party line votes, it allows employees to either opt out of overtime pay or instead except up pay. the call the bill family friendly legislation that gives the workers flexibility on how they would like to compensated. currently employers must hour -- offer them time and half for every hour over 40. this statement was released by the white house office of management and budget. ho...

resolution that designated me forever and ever senate historian emeritus. so i did some research to find out since there has never been a senate historian emeritus, where is the office space, what about parking, what about an i.d. card. i'm still doing the research, but it was a great honor and i will cherish it to my dying day. >> yeah, but they gave you something else. >> they also agreed to open the senate chamber galleries during the time that the senate is not in session. that has always been the case for 142 years until 9/11, and as one of the unfortunate consequences, of the m...

there was no constitutional requirement or even permission to censure a president, but they did it anyway. and then in 1837, in january of 1837, when the democrats got a slight majority, tom has hart benton of missouri made it his life's work to get that censure, the word, you know -- it's not a word we use very often, expunged. they literally had the secretary of the senate come in and draw a nice straight black box over the original resolution as it appeared in the senate journal. and crossed a line through it, expunged by the order of the senate this january, whatever day, in 1837...

add to this the budget crisis and the debt and a down economy and you have republicans and especially whether they are talk-radio hosts or bloggers, a conservative thinkers, saying particularly now when we cannot afford anything, you cannot justify that we continue funding planned parenthood. as much as cecile would like to make this about services that planned parenthood provides and how the government would have to spend money in any event, for many republicans on the hill and their supporters around the country, this is a quasi- religious issue. not only should we np fundr we shou...

leaders filling up the tree, blocking the other side from offering amendments. i did it a few times, but i remember how my colleague on the other side of the aisle, tom daschle reacted. he got mad. i did it with john mccain too. he said i'm going to offer this amendment. i said, no you're not. i said i'll be in front of you filling up the tree and block you from offering amendments. he did, and i did, and there was unpleasant comments, but we stayed great friends through it all because i never surprised him, and i used the...