Honorable Russell D. Feingold
United States Senator, Wisconsin, Democrat
Senator Feingold was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the Wisconsin Senate from 1982 to 1992. He is a member of the following committees: Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Budget, and the Special Committee on Aging. The following is from the September 9, 2003, Senate floor debate on an amendment to H.R. 2660, the 2004 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, to eliminate funding from the bill to implement the Labor Department’s proposed overtime rule.The Department of Labor overtime proposal is the latest in a series of assaults on working Americans that…