[paltz]

Some Republicans who voted in favor of the minimum-wage bill were particularly irritated to learn yesterday -- after their vote -- that the legislation did not include American Samoa. "I was troubled to learn of this exemption," said Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois Republican. "My intention was to raise the minimum wage for everyone. We shouldn't permit any special favors or exemptions that are not widely discussed in Congress. This is the problem with rushing legislation through without full debate."

DO you bother to EVER read the legislation before you before your stupid knee jerk voting habits, congressman?

[CharlesWayneCT]

House rules are to publish the full legislations 72 hours before a vote, but I believe they waived that rule for this one, saying it was "just like" the one voted on before, but without the add-ons.

Apparently it wasn't the same.

My outrage is tempered by the fact that I don't want to complain about A.S. not having minimum wage, I want to complain about the rest of us HAVING it. If the result of my screaming "hypocrisy" is just an amendment in the Senate to put A.S. into the same state as the rest of us, I will feel like I've won a battle but lost the war.

Better to have them be the only place not infected by the minimum wage bill, so we can point to it as a shining example for the rest of us.