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"business groups and several states opposed the rule and said it set the threshold too high. They challenged it in court and in November [Judge] Mazzant stayed it."
Note that there was no challenge to the authority of the Labor Dept. to make such a rule- rather the challenge was to the methodology of the calculation. A Labor Dept. that actually had the interests of labor in mind would have accepted the ruling and recalculated. Not Trump's boys, though.
@Maurice: Those who disagree with your narrow world view are automatically "raging"? And by inference, have some mental issues? How charming of you. And your professional qualifications for making such a statement would be...???
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https://washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/04/10/president-obama-said-the-113th-congress-is-the-least-productive-ever-is-he-right/?utm_term=.070af0360e79#comments
Meanwhile, our current president issued more executive orders in his first 100 days than any president since Truman even though his party controls the legislative branch:
thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/331134-trump-using-executive-orders-at-unprecedented-pace
Note that there was no challenge to the authority of the Labor Dept. to make such a rule- rather the challenge was to the methodology of the calculation. A Labor Dept. that actually had the interests of labor in mind would have accepted the ruling and recalculated. Not Trump's boys, though.
@Maurice: Those who disagree with your narrow world view are automatically "raging"? And by inference, have some mental issues? How charming of you. And your professional qualifications for making such a statement would be...???