Must have been the heat…or the pile of work…or both…but the daily post slipped by until now. But, as someone who spent a couple of years back…well, a while ago…waiting on tables, this caught my eye.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tip money earned by waitresses in Las Vegas, manicurists in Hollywood and bartenders in Seattle is on the table in the nation’s capital as lawmakers scrap over an election-year minimum wage bill.

Nevada, California and Washington are among seven states where workers get to keep their tips on top of getting paid their state’s full minimum wage. In other states, tip-earning workers get paid less and make up the difference with tips.

A provision in GOP-written minimum wage legislation passed by the House and under consideration this week by the Senate could change the law in those seven states — the others are Montana, Alaska, Minnesota and Oregon. It would deal a pay cut of $3 or more an hour to thousands of waiters, bellhops and hairdressers in those states, according to Democrats and labor groups.

The Republicans never stop. Despite the fact that the Democrats still don’t have a compelling vision that has stuck in the voters’ minds, people are so fed up with the Republicans that the Democrats might actually win back Congress because the Republicans keep trying to push measures that seem so off-the-wall.