Yahoo! News - House Votes to Block Bush Overtime Regulations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives defied President Bush on Thursday and voted to block his administration's controversial new overtime regulations for white-collar workers. The vote was 223-193.

In a rare election-year victory for organized labor in the Republican-led Congress, the House approved a Democratic amendment that would deny funds to administer the regulations that foes say would cost an estimated 6 million white- and blue-collar workers overtime pay.

Republican leaders rejected those claims, and aides said, would seek to kill the amendment once a $142.5 billion funding bill for the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services reached a House-Senate conference committee.