Senate rejects effort to pass minimum wage bill
By on Jan 24th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Senate rejects effort to pass minimum wage bill
without additional tax cuts for businesses, MSNBC reports. The House approved a stand-alone increase in the minimum wage on Jan. 10.
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How about we cut the pay in half for every Senator? This is outrageous for the Senate to demand tax cuts for Big Business tied to raising the minimum wage. Shame on the Senate!
January 24th, 2007 at 12:43 pmYes, let’s hear it again about the compassion of the R party for the working poor.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pmso…where can I get the list of opposing senators?
January 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pmanswering my own question: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm
January 24th, 2007 at 12:46 pmbut it’s not yet there
Don’t senators make almost 200k a year and they have the unmitigated gall to denial hard working Americans a raise.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:46 pmIncorrect link!
January 24th, 2007 at 12:46 pmamazing. ignore the people. so, it is time to put the house of representatives in charge of this country, as they are the only ones that have to listen to us every year.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:47 pmthis is so insulting
You might want to explain this a little better. The Republicans filibustered the minimum wage. The vote was 54-43 in favor of proceeding. These are the same Republicans who were constantly talking about up or down votes when they were in the majority, even about the “nuclear option” (to ban filibusters at least for Supreme Court nominations).
Also do you really have to link to the Washington Times? As the proved for the umpteenth time with the Obama Maddrassah “story” they are not a reputable source.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:51 pmGood. Wedge shouldn’t be controlled by the government.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:53 pmSo you want to force companies to raise the minimum wage and against any tax cut. So you want higher prices or more unemployment.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:56 pmOK, put those additional tax cuts up for a separate vote and defeat it. Then, demand a similar up and down vote for the minimum wage.
Methinks Kevin made an unintended funny. The government under the neocons have been controlling the “wedge” issues for quite a while.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:57 pmAll Democrats voted for it. Only 4 Republicans voted for it:
Collins, Snowe, Spector, Warner
January 24th, 2007 at 12:57 pmWhere’s the voting tabulation? I want to know which Dems voted against this…
January 24th, 2007 at 12:58 pmOoops, read first, post after, thanks stefan!
January 24th, 2007 at 12:59 pmIf the Congress had tied the minimum wage to inflation it would be about 7 to 8 bucks a hour already. Raising it 25 cents a year is not much to ask, nor would it hurt businesses by raising it that small amount each year. Jumping it 2 bucks at one shot could hurt small business owners, but Kennedy bill raises it in 2 segments in 2 years.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:59 pmHow about linking to the MSNBC report:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16789599/
January 24th, 2007 at 1:00 pmActually, 5R’s. Coleman also voted the right way. Also, interestingly, Brownback didn’t vote (not sure if deliberate, but he’s been getting more independent lately).
January 24th, 2007 at 1:01 pmSo you want higher prices or more unemployment.
Comment by Kevin — January 24, 2007 @
Studies have already shot that one down, Kevin.
Try again.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:02 pmDid Lieberman vote to raise the minimum wage? Would be a surprise if he did.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:02 pmAha – the vote was on cloture, blocking a possible filibuster. Lost by seven votes.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pmI listened to Deb Stabenow on AA last night.
She was talking about the need to collaborate with at least ten senators from the other side of the floor on everything to prevent this very scenario from playing out…Seems she was correct.
Without cloture, the Reps can filibuster this to death.
Collins, Snowe, Spector, Warner
Those Rs keep showing up with Ds quite a bit lately, it seems to me. Bush seems to have gotten dumped at the prom.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pmI’m not interested, anymore, in ANYTHING other than Congressional oversight and input concerning Iraq AND Iran.
The “domestic” agenda needs to be put on hold until then…
January 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pmmsnbc: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., scheduled Wednesday’s vote to demonstrate the Democrats’ lack of support for a straight minimum wage bill without tax cuts.”
huh? how does that make sense?
January 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pmall democrats voted for the bill
@19, yes, lieberman did vote for the minimum wage increase
January 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pmShoeless > there are 49 Democrat Senators, 2 Independents: Lieberman and Sanders, and 49 Republican Senators, so Sanders voted with the Dems, but if Lieberman voted with Dems, then one Dem is a traitor who voted no?
January 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pmOops! I missed Coleman in the Yeas list. What’s the deal with Coleman? He hasn’t been so much of a turd lately?
January 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pmThank you for the clarification. Upon first reading, I thought we had a majority against it and I was flipping out until I read deeper and found the reason why. TP should update the headline! It makes it sound like liberal senators voted against the increase.
So what happened to the ol’ Nuclear Option??
January 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pmNone of the Democrats voted Nay. Johnson didn’t vote because he is in the hospital. Carper of Delaware didn’t vote either.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:14 pmWell shoeless what is Carper’s excuse for not voting?
Yes I forgot about Johnson being hospitalized.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:18 pmIndeed, not exactly a reputable source…
I thought the GOP had a monopoly on the whole “wedge” thing…
January 24th, 2007 at 1:59 pmThe minimum wage is a political football used by the Democrats at campaign speeches. They have zero interest in indexing it, or else they would’ve done that in the 90’s when they had total control. Instead, they’d rather use it as a populist tool on the campaign trail. The Democrats just use the minimum wage as an election year gimmick to get out the vote.
Most minimum wage workers are under 25 years old and work part time. Most are part of middle or upper income families.
Most of these jobs are in the restaurant industry, and do not count tips as part of income. When including tips, these folks make around $20 an hour.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pmRegardless of who voted how, and whether there was a filibuster or not, the result is the same: This group, who has no problem with voting themselves raises regularly, seems to think that just giving working people a raise is a frivolous waste of time – unless of course business gets yet another perk to make it all better. You know, because all the countless perks that came before didn’t quite do it for them.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pmComment by Stefan #4
Thanks Stefan…
…the link works really well…
…I’ve emailed a couple of Repulsivescum Senators and let them have it!
January 24th, 2007 at 2:03 pmMuckdog clearly isn’t making minimum wage and doesn’t care about those who do. Muckdog, are you a Republican or just an elitist with Democratic pretentions?
January 24th, 2007 at 2:11 pmI say let the Republicans filibuster. Then they can be painted as ‘obstructionists’.
Except Rupubs would be obstructionists for something a majority of people support, the minimum wage increase. Rather than being called ‘obstuctionist’ for a more noble reason, which was resisting the same right wing judges being forced over and over and over.
They should bring up this bill again after the first 100 hours, let the repubs filibuster it, and then nail all the republicans to the wall because they only pretend to support a min-wage increase.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:25 pmMuckdog, where are your stats on that? That flies directly in the face of the people I see working retail jobs everywhere I go in the country, NE, South, West. Walmart and other big box retailers have a pretty wide age spectrum…
January 24th, 2007 at 2:31 pmMuckdog, where are your stats on that? That flies directly in the face of the people I see working retail jobs everywhere I go in the country, NE, South, West. Walmart and other big box retailers have a pretty wide age spectrum…
Comment by Jiminy — January 24, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Don’t forget college students. I worked on campus all four years of college back in 1995 and I was making $5.15/hour. My sister, who is in college NOW, is working on campus and making…………..$5.15/hour.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:41 pmThe greedy get greedier. They should be so proud.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pmGee, there are apparently business taxes still out there that the Republicans haven’t managed to cut. .Imagine that….Or maybe that was the problem, Republicans couldn’t find any more business tax cuts to piggy back on to the minimum wage bill, so they had to resort to a filibuster.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:01 pmI KNEW IT……………
OH YA….. THEY SERVE THE PEOPLE ALL RIGHT……………:)
oh ya….. the democrats are going to be our saviors over
the totally CORRUPTED 109th congress
democrats used TONS of sociologists, experts in human
bahavior to cease control of both 109th position and NOW
it will just be a repeat of what was it 1994 – 2000
IT WILL JUST BE A REPEAT…………. By 2010/2011 the republicians
will be warmly welcome back in congress again… :)
CAN’T EVEN PASS FRIGGIN MINIMUM WAGE…….
TOTALLY CORRUPT :) …… ENOUGH TO PUKE, PUKE PUKE :)
OH
YA……………
they serve the people ALL RIGHT
January 24th, 2007 at 3:30 pmWhat’s the deal with Coleman? He hasn’t been so much of a turd lately?
Comment by shoeless — January 24, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
al franken 08
January 24th, 2007 at 3:48 pmoops… may have acted on impulse without all i know, why
wasn’t the minimum wage passed?? republicians or democrats
ALL I KNOW IS CORRUPTION IS A REALITY
NOW I UNDERSTAND THE DIVISION BETWEEN THE GODLY RICH
AND THE POOR WHO CURES WILL BE ACHIEVED BY PHARMA :)
you know the way i look at this is yah all right
government; big, inefficient, wasteful, alot of times truth doesn’t
matter, won’t even be any truth by the time attorney’s prefabricate
a scenerio, … hey aren’t all lawmakers attorney’s.
I UNDER OATH PROMISE TO BE A LAMB APPOINTED BY CHRIST TO
SERVE THE PEOPLE WHO GRATEFULLY GIVE ME 50% TO SERVE
THEM AND TAKE A VERY MINIMAL PORK BECAUSE I AM AUTHORITY
AND I RULE…. :) i could go on and on………….
oh regarding working at the college (government P**K !) $5.15
an hour for 4 friggin years….. that comment isn’t it nice to know
that’s TOTALLY INSANE. probably some crony just above you
was making $60,000 … not because of their hard work nor
integrity because of who they knew…. Leaches/leeches, whatever
ALL I KNOW IS CORRUPTION IS A REALITY ALL RIGHT, ENOUGH TO **** :)
January 24th, 2007 at 3:52 pm#31 – Most minimum wage earners are part-time and living in middle class homes????
Your figures are abyssmally incorrect. Many two wage earners are trying to make it with a child or two in the home – and not from their own fault. Jobs are displaced overseas. Downsizing. Rural communities suffer the most. Try living in Idaho where wait staff do not even make minimum wage! It is true, figure it out. 8.00 per hour? Is that what you truly believe? Then do some reading, investigating, and offer to help out at food banks. Pull your head out of the sand. Good Grief!
January 24th, 2007 at 4:03 pmKeep working Americans poor…that’s the platform these Republicans will have to run on in the next election.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:41 pmSo the Minimum Wage Increase is the victim of a Republican fillibuster. So much for bi-partisanship, Pelosi’s hundred hour pledge gave a minimum wage increase of a lousy $2.15 over TWO years!! And yet these greedy sob’s want more and more.
January 30th, 2007 at 8:56 pmThen when I read that 28 senators voted on a bill they presented to get rid of the Minimum Wage entirely, and that the media had not even reported this disgusting greedy bill and it’s votes, I hit the ceiling.
I had to do a cartoon on this topic since people will read a cartoon before they read an article.
to see the cartoon, “Minimal progress with the Minimum Wage” at my website;
http://www.whatnowtoons.com
Jessie
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