Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Cheers To The Senate Dems For Fighting For Working Families...
Unfortunately, they came up short by a margin of 49-46 in spite of the support of 4 Republicans (Lincoln Chafee, Mike DeWine, Norm Coleman, Pete Domenici) who did the right thing and crossed the aisle to vote in support of Sen. Ted Kennedy's amendment to the horrendous bankruptcy reform bill...
The Kennedy amendment included a provision to raise the minimum wage to $7.25.
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa/Va)'s competing amendment, which was essentially a blatant attack on workers disguised as a minimum wage increase failed by an even wider margin of 61-38.
Kudos to the Democrats and Republicans who were interested in giving working families a better shot at making a decent wage...
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