Today, the Bush administration announced scaled-back rules to change eligibility for overtime pay. These revised regulations were made after the administration issued a preliminary rule last March seeking to change the criteria for determining which employees not covered by collective bargaining agreements are eligible for premium pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.

Included in the revised regulations was a proposal that workers making less than $23.660 per year will be guaranteed overtime, a change from the original proposal's $22,100 cutoff. Another proposal includes a guarantee police and firefighters retain their right to keep overtime benefits.

These changes, however, are unlikely to diminish Democratic criticism that any changes are an attack on working Americans.