GOP Faces Decisions on Overtime Pay
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 18, 2003
Filed at 4:06 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top congressional Republicans trying to fashion a huge end-of-session spending bill face decisions on overtime pay and other issues that have prompted Bush administration veto threats.
GOP leaders in the House and Senate planned to meet Tuesday to make some of those decisions. On Monday, some Republicans signaled to the White House that despite the threats, they would charge ahead and include language blocking an administration proposal to let media companies own more television stations.
``As far as we're concerned, it's closed,'' said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
``It's in,'' said a top House GOP aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``The White House can't count. They don't have the votes'' to take it out of the bill.
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