A group of Republican senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at blocking the Obama administration’s controversial efforts to extend minimum wage and overtime protections to 2 million in-home care providers through Department of Labor regulations.

Sens. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., along with 11 other lawmakers, introduced a bill known as the Companionship Exemption Protection Act, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to preserve the current state of the law’s so-called companionship services exemption.

LOL, it’s like they’re trying to be cartoonishly evil. Hey, you know those people washing grandpa, cooking his meals, taking his blood pressure making sure he don’t get bedsores? Yeah - well fuck ‘em.