US Federal Minimum Wage

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Congress has voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour by summer, 2009 - an increase of almost 41 percent in the hourly wage.

I applaud the "no" voters who showed their willingness to put their necks on the line in support of US Businesses and who apparently read the Congressional Budget Office Report that showed the huge benefits of the earned income tax credit versus increasing the minimum wage.

Here are the "no" votes who are deserving of some accolades.

Ironically, this bill earned wide support on the Republican side of both houses, and the names that you would think would be in favor of a minimum wage increase actually voted against this increase in the minimum wage! Just look at the Dem senators who voted against it! Who'd have thought that the Dems would say, "FUCK THE POOR?I"

Senate
Democrat:
No: Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, Russell Feingold, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Ron Wyden.

Abstained 2): Tim Johnson and Chuck Schumer

Independent:
No: Bernard Sanders (I)

Republican:
No (3): Richard Burr, Tom Coburn and Michael Enzi

Abstained (4): Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman, Orrin Hatch and Craig Thomas

The list of Representatives who said, "Fuck the Poor!"

House of Representatives
Democrat
No (140): Neil Abercrombie, Gary Ackerman, Thomas Allen, Michael Arcuri, Tammy Baldwin, Xavier Becerra, Timothy Bishop, Earl Blumenauer, Robert Brady, Bruce Braley, Corrine Brown, Lois Capps, Michael Capuano, Russ Carnahan, Julia Carson, Kathy Castor, Yvette Clarke, William Clay, Emanuel Cleaver, Steve Cohen, John Conyers, Jerry Costello, Joe Courtney, Joseph Crowley, Elijah Cummings, Artur Davis, Danny Davis, Peter DeFazio, Rosa DeLauro, William Delahunt, Lloyd Doggett, Michael Doyle, Keith Ellison, Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr, Chaka Fattah, Bob Filner, Barney Frank, Al Green, Raúl Grijalva, Luis Gutiérrez, John Hall, Phil Hare, Jane Harman, Alcee Hastings, Brian Higgins, Maurice Hinchey, Mazie Hirono, Paul Hodes, Chris Van Hollen, Rush Holt, Mike Honda, Darlene Hooley, Jay Inslee, Steve Israel, Jesse Jackson, Sheila Jackson-Lee, William Jefferson, Hank Johnson, Eddie Johnson, Marcy Kaptur, Patrick Kennedy, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ron Klein, Dennis Kucinich, James Langevin, Tom Lantos, John Larson, Barbara Lee, David Loebsack, Zoe Lofgren, Nita Lowey, Stephen Lynch, Carolyn Maloney, Edward Markey, Doris Matsui, Carolyn McCarthy, Betty McCollum, Jim McDermott, James McGovern, Jerry McNerney, Michael McNulty, Martin Meehan, Gregory Meeks, Michael Michaud, Brad Miller, George Miller, Gwen Moore, James Moran, Christopher Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Jerrold Nadler, Grace Napolitano, Richard Neal, David Obey, John Olver, Frank Pallone, Bill Pascrell, Ed Pastor, Donald Payne, Nancy Pelosi, Ed Perlmutter, David Price, Charles Rangel, Steven Rothman, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Bobby Rush, Tim Ryan, Loretta Sanchez, John Sarbanes, Jan Schakowsky, Adam Schiff, Robert Scott, José Serrano, Carol Shea-Porter, Brad Sherman, Albio Sires, Louise Slaughter, Adam Smith, Hilda Solis, Pete Stark, Betty Sutton, Linda Sánchez, Ellen Tauscher, Mike Thompson, John Tierney, Edolphus Towns, Tom Udall, Nydia Velázquez, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Melvin Watt, Henry Waxman, Anthony Weiner, Peter Welch, Robert Wexler, Lynn Woolsey, David Wu, Al Wynn, and John Yarmuth

Abstained (6): Howard Berman, Diana DeGette, Eliot Engel, Stephanie Jones, John Lewis and James Oberstar

Republicans
No (2): John 'Jimmy' Duncan and Ron Paul

Abstained (5): John Campbell, Jo Ann Davis, Jo Ann Emerson, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jerry Weller

Isn't this something? I wonder if the Republicans will try to make political hay out of the Dems' wholesale snubbing of the poor.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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Congress has voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour by summer, 2009 - an increase of almost 41 percent in the hourly wage.

I applaud the "no" voters who showed their willingness to put their necks on the line in support of US Businesses and who apparently read the Congressional Budget Office Report that showed the huge benefits of the earned income tax credit versus increasing the minimum wage.

Here are the "no" votes who are deserving of some accolades.

Ironically, this bill earned wide support on the Republican side of both houses, and the names that you would think would be in favor of a minimum wage increase actually voted against this increase in the minimum wage! Just look at the Dem senators who voted against it! Who'd have thought that the Dems would say, "FUCK THE POOR?I"

Senate
Democrat:
No: Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, Russell Feingold, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Ron Wyden.

Abstained 2): Tim Johnson and Chuck Schumer

Independent:
No: Bernard Sanders (I)

Republican:
No (3): Richard Burr, Tom Coburn and Michael Enzi

Abstained (4): Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman, Orrin Hatch and Craig Thomas

The list of Representatives who said, "Fuck the Poor!"

House of Representatives
Democrat
No (140): Neil Abercrombie, Gary Ackerman, Thomas Allen, Michael Arcuri, Tammy Baldwin, Xavier Becerra, Timothy Bishop, Earl Blumenauer, Robert Brady, Bruce Braley, Corrine Brown, Lois Capps, Michael Capuano, Russ Carnahan, Julia Carson, Kathy Castor, Yvette Clarke, William Clay, Emanuel Cleaver, Steve Cohen, John Conyers, Jerry Costello, Joe Courtney, Joseph Crowley, Elijah Cummings, Artur Davis, Danny Davis, Peter DeFazio, Rosa DeLauro, William Delahunt, Lloyd Doggett, Michael Doyle, Keith Ellison, Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr, Chaka Fattah, Bob Filner, Barney Frank, Al Green, Raúl Grijalva, Luis Gutiérrez, John Hall, Phil Hare, Jane Harman, Alcee Hastings, Brian Higgins, Maurice Hinchey, Mazie Hirono, Paul Hodes, Chris Van Hollen, Rush Holt, Mike Honda, Darlene Hooley, Jay Inslee, Steve Israel, Jesse Jackson, Sheila Jackson-Lee, William Jefferson, Hank Johnson, Eddie Johnson, Marcy Kaptur, Patrick Kennedy, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ron Klein, Dennis Kucinich, James Langevin, Tom Lantos, John Larson, Barbara Lee, David Loebsack, Zoe Lofgren, Nita Lowey, Stephen Lynch, Carolyn Maloney, Edward Markey, Doris Matsui, Carolyn McCarthy, Betty McCollum, Jim McDermott, James McGovern, Jerry McNerney, Michael McNulty, Martin Meehan, Gregory Meeks, Michael Michaud, Brad Miller, George Miller, Gwen Moore, James Moran, Christopher Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Jerrold Nadler, Grace Napolitano, Richard Neal, David Obey, John Olver, Frank Pallone, Bill Pascrell, Ed Pastor, Donald Payne, Nancy Pelosi, Ed Perlmutter, David Price, Charles Rangel, Steven Rothman, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Bobby Rush, Tim Ryan, Loretta Sanchez, John Sarbanes, Jan Schakowsky, Adam Schiff, Robert Scott, José Serrano, Carol Shea-Porter, Brad Sherman, Albio Sires, Louise Slaughter, Adam Smith, Hilda Solis, Pete Stark, Betty Sutton, Linda Sánchez, Ellen Tauscher, Mike Thompson, John Tierney, Edolphus Towns, Tom Udall, Nydia Velázquez, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Melvin Watt, Henry Waxman, Anthony Weiner, Peter Welch, Robert Wexler, Lynn Woolsey, David Wu, Al Wynn, and John Yarmuth

Abstained (6): Howard Berman, Diana DeGette, Eliot Engel, Stephanie Jones, John Lewis and James Oberstar

Republicans
No (2): John 'Jimmy' Duncan and Ron Paul

Abstained (5): John Campbell, Jo Ann Davis, Jo Ann Emerson, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jerry Weller

Isn't this something? I wonder if the Republicans will try to make political hay out of the Dems' wholesale snubbing of the poor.

Ahem. Some of us actually read the news.

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I had a feeling you were going to bring this up...

Politically, it's a real rub against both Senators Clinton and Obama in their Presidential campaigns.

Personally, I don't oppose the wage increase, but I wish it wasn't quite as steep, or a year or two longer. With gas prices what they are right now, the wages are going to be an added pressure to inflation. The Fed is going to be playing interest rate games I suspect. Consumer prices are going to climb a bit, or employment will take a hit.

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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Gee, Max. Why did you have a feeling that "moi" would bring up this little tidbit?

Is it because you know that I'm asshole enough? That I have the acute ability to spin it? That I can point out that politics makes strange bedfellows?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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Ahem. Some of us actually read the news.

Well, the minimum wage is a big story, isn't it? I was surprised that nobody brought it up.

And don't you find it interesting that these folks voted against an increase in th minimum wage? And that Republicans voted FOR it?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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Gee, Max. Why did you have a feeling that "moi" would bring up this little tidbit?

Is it because you know that I'm asshole enough? That I have the acute ability to spin it? That I can point out that politics makes strange bedfellows?

Obviously you bring this up to smite those that oppose the working poor...you're also a lawyer, and therefore a socialist, but also support big business... (taking tongue out of cheek now)

Interestingly, if this also precedes the immigration bill as it appears to be written, then social security receipts are going to go up too.

I think it's also an effort to fund the social programs as the baby boomers retire.

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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And don't you find it interesting that these folks voted against an increase in th minimum wage? And that Republicans voted FOR it?

What completely unrelated bit of legislation was it added to?

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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The war funding bill.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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The war funding bill.

I think the laziness and general sneakiness of tying unrelated items together is one of the most irritating things about our legislative process.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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The war funding bill.

(certainly dispicable)
which side added it? but that explains the voting better...

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