Atrios points out a post at Nathan Newman’s Labor Blog detailing some wrangling going on in the Senate on an amendment to the bankruptcy bill that would affect the minimum wage and other aspects of the Federal Labor Standards Act. Newman’s conclusion, as well as those of several other groups, is that this bill will harm workers.

The most odd thing to me is that the Santorum amendment restricts states from overriding the federal minimum wage standard in cases for people with tip income… why would you want to do that? In other words, why override the states on this particular account?