Senate Coverage -- (March '05)

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[Bahbah]

Sununu is raising your very question.

[Mo1]

Last week Michael Medved had some lib guy on his radio show (I wish I could remember his name) that actually said that the ONLY fair minimum wage was $20.00 per hour!!!

If they raise minium wage to $20 per hour .. you'll see even more and more companies outsourse jobs to countries like China

[BigSkyFreeper]

If they raise minium wage to $20 per hour .. you'll see even more and more companies outsourse jobs to countries like China

Exactly, and all those poor families in Kennedy's remarks will be in bigger dire straits because they have NO JOB.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The MW was not designed to get families out of debt, or lower the poverty level below what it is now. The MW was started as a means to an entry point into the job market. To get off the MW and still retain a wage, you aspire to move yourself up in the world by moving up to a higher paying salary, and not burden the whole country and the job market by moving up the MW.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I never realized that flagmen and pilot car drivers were white collar workers earning $16.00 to $45.00 an hour.

[Mo1]

Union

[BigSkyFreeper]

Exactly.

[OXENinFLA]

REJECTED!!!

Vote	Date	Question	Result	Description
00027	07-Mar	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 128	Rejected	Santorum Amdt. No. 128; To promote job creation, family time, and small business preservation in the adjustment of the Federal minimum wage.
00026	07-Mar	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 44	Rejected	Kennedy Amdt. No. 44; To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.

[OXENinFLA]

Monday, Mar 7, 2005

The Senate convened at 2:00 p.m. and adjourned at 7:32 p.m. Two record votes were taken. [Both minimum wage increase amendments were Rejected.]

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Next meeting: Tuesday, Mar 8, 2005

9:45 a.m.: Convene and resume consideration of S. 256, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

[OXENinFLA]

I'm listen to the DC police scanner, an off duty cop just got robbed at gun point.

[Bahbah]

I have this mental picture of you doing at least 6 things at once ;)

[OXENinFLA]

Boy, Sessions sure is testy about some amendment Schumer proposed.

[OXENinFLA]

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[Bahbah]

I only caught part of what Schumer was up to, but it had something to do with abortion clinics and those committing offenses against persons or property. Orin doesn't seem to like it much either.

[OXENinFLA]

Schumer back up.

[OXENinFLA]

From C-span's caption....Prevent anti-abortaion protesters from using Bankruptcy protection to escape court-ordered fines

[OXENinFLA]

Di-Fi up.....

[OXENinFLA]

* LIVE - US SENATE * Poison Pill Offered by Sen. Schumer (D-NY)- VOTE in 15 MINS (12:15 EST)

[OXENinFLA]

Tuesday, Mar 8, 2005

The Senate convened at 9:45 a.m. and adjourned at 7:18 p.m. Three record votes were taken.

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Next meeting: Wednesday, Mar 9, 2005

9:30 a.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.

10:30 a.m.: Resume consideration of S. 256, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

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I was looking at the vote this morning and am wondering how they evoked culture and THEN Feingold tried to put his amendment on the bill. Isn't that backwards?

[Mo1]

I'm not an expert on Senate rules

But it sounds backwards to me