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Pelosi backtracks, now says Samoa NOT exempt - FOX
Me | 1/12/07 | georgiadawg32

Posted on 01/12/2007 12:52:23 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32

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To: Yo-Yo
Minimum wage should be up to the local or state governments to determine. The American Somoa situation illustrates exactly why a blanketed minimum is a terrible idea at the national level. I doubt anyone with a legal visa or citizenship is making much less than $10/hour in San Francisco, for example, regardless of the $5.25 national minimum. Here in Oregon, the state minimum wage is $7.50/hr, and many rural communities have trouble meeting that while the businesses here in the Portland metro area often pay higher for entry level and unskilled workers.
281 posted on 01/16/2007 11:25:40 AM PST by Carling (It's Danny, Sir)
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To: llevrok
aren't the 100 hours up yet?

No, the 100 hours are not up yet. And here is the dirty little secret on the 100 hours.

Pelosi said she was going to get 6 bills through in the first 100 hours of the new congress. Fine. BUT, and its a big BUT. The only time that counts toward the 100 hours is when they are spending time on one of those 6 bills! So if they are debating, giving self congratulatory speeches, etc... that time does not count toward the 100 hours.

282 posted on 01/16/2007 11:37:51 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

The DING-A-LING Democrat hard at work....Never mind!


283 posted on 01/16/2007 12:04:29 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Phantom Lord

exactly correct..time left on the 100 hours is 75 hours, 15 mins

http://www.house.gov/pelosi/


284 posted on 01/16/2007 12:09:36 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Hmmmmm, I bet there will be some good property buys pretty soon there.


285 posted on 01/16/2007 2:21:48 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: Centurion2000
According to FoxNews, Pelosi now says Samoa is INCLUDED..

We all know that what a politician says doesn't mean spit, what is written into the law?

286 posted on 01/17/2007 12:55:37 PM PST by RJL
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Oh, yeah, this one says this and that one says that, but what is the bottom line? Will American Samoa be included in the new minimum wage legislation or not? Why is this question so difficult to answer?


287 posted on 01/17/2007 3:09:35 PM PST by Continental Soldier
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
The Samoans should make sure that every 20th can of tuna has only water in it.

I opened a can of tuna a few months back and found no tuna in it.

288 posted on 01/18/2007 8:33:38 AM PST by syriacus (When you think "surge," think "tsunami." 34,000 Americans died so South Korea could be free.)
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To: zendari

" How do they correct an oversight? "

I would "assume" that any correction would be in Committee with the Senate.


289 posted on 01/18/2007 10:08:20 PM PST by politicalwit (Freedom doesn't mean a Free Pass.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

..many interested parties are watching...

290 posted on 01/21/2007 7:20:27 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( ..when there is any conflict between God and Caesar -- guess who loses?)
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