Both House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) indicated on Sunday that they expect Congress to remain in session up to election day, November 2, in order to pass an intelligence reform package. Previously, Congress was set to adjourn October 1.

Yesterday, the Bush administration's new overtime rules went into affect. The administration believes that the new regulations are needed to replace outdated rules. They believe that the new regulations make overtime rules clearer and will make it easy to enforce and will reduce expensive litigation that hurts business.

Opponents to the new regulations say that they will exept up to six million additional workers from receiving overtime pay by redefining which workers qualify for overtime.