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TexasTowelie

(116,768 posts)
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 02:19 AM Jun 2019

Sherrod Brown Pushes Trump Administration On Overtime Pay

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is proposing a bill that would require overtime pay for any salaried worker making less than $51,064, a more than $15,000 increase to the Trump Administration's proposed threshold.

The current overtime salary threshold is set at $23,660, Brown says his plan would make overtime pay available for more than 4.6 million more workers.

President Donald Trump has his own proposal to increase to the threshold to $35,303 a year.

Brown says that plan is a "betrayal to American workers" and sees this as an important issue in the 2020 presidential race.

Read more: https://www.statenews.org/post/sherrod-brown-pushes-trump-administration-overtime-pay

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Sherrod Brown Pushes Trump Administration On Overtime Pay (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP
I was hoping Sherrod Brown would throw in for President. Oh, well, plenty of other talent. Midnight Writer Jun 2019 #1
There are a few candidates that would benefit from having Brown as a running mate, TexasTowelie Jun 2019 #2
Then DeWine would choose another Republican for the Senate. True Blue American Jun 2019 #3

TexasTowelie

(116,768 posts)
2. There are a few candidates that would benefit from having Brown as a running mate,
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 02:51 AM
Jun 2019

particularly Harris and O'Rourke. The one issue that develops having Brown as a running mate or in the cabinet is that his replacement would be named by Gov. DeWine who would almost certainly pick a Republican.

True Blue American

(18,162 posts)
3. Then DeWine would choose another Republican for the Senate.
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 03:57 AM
Jun 2019

That may be one reason Brown dropped out. The guy is seriously devoted to Ohio.

He knocked DeWine out of the Senate. I wish he would run for Governor.

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