Posted on 03/05/2021 12:34:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Eight Democratic senators joined Republicans in rejecting raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour over five years after it was proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Angus King (I-Vt.)—who caucuses with Democrats—opposed the measure, joining all Republicans in the upper chamber. Coons and Carper are considered two close allies of President Joe Biden, who was formerly a senator from Delaware.
The final vote tally was 42–58, falling far short of the 60 votes needed to overrule the Senate parliamentarian’s decision that a minimum wage increase can’t be embedded in a broader COVID-19 stimulus bill.
Sinema tweeted she supports raising the minimum wage, which was last increased more than a decade ago as she knows “what it is like to face tough choices while working to meet your family’s most basic needs.”
“Senators in both parties have shown support for raising the federal minimum wage and the Senate should hold an open debate and amendment process on raising the minimum wage, separate from the COVID-focused reconciliation bill,” she said on Twitter.
Manchin, perhaps the most centrist Democrat in the Senate, previously said in an interview with The Hill that he doesn’t support the $15 per hour increase, remarking that he’s open to raising the minimum wage to something that is “responsible and reasonable.” In West Virginia, his home state, he suggested that it should be $11 per hour when adjusted for inflation.
The move drew condemnation from progressive Democrats and Sanders himself. Some called for the eight senators to be primaried.
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King I-Maine
The two senators from Biden’s state went against him? I guess Biden groped Coons’ daughter one time too many.
What was Angus’ beef?
He talks a good game, and votes with Repubs if there is no chance of a bill passing. When the rubber hits the road and the Dems need his vote for whatever radical stuff, he is a reliable vote for them.
Yes
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HR 1 is the most outrages bill in a generation. I pray a couple of rat Senators will kill it. I don’t trust the SC to stop any bill that concerns elections. HR 1 means a locked permanent rat majority.
I think Bernie and his far-left cohorts ought to spend their time trying to get the ‘stimulus’ money passed. If this entire bill fails, there will be millions of angry Democrats out there turning on their party. “Where’s my $1,400 and my $400 a week?!”
Dayum, Rehnquist. Nice work.
The Covid Bill will pass, cutting out the minimum wage hike guarantees it
Yes. Angus King is from Maine, not Vermont, as the article mistakenly mentioned. (Actually, he’s originally from Alexandria, Virginia).
He was also elected governor of Maine twice as an “Independent”.....once in 1994 and again in 1998.
Dang, there goes the illegal influx.....slightly.
The people calling on Coons and Carper to be primaried for their votes on the minimum-wage bill are doing so because they think that they aren’t Leftist enough, so they’d probably like the Leftists that ran against Coons and Carper last time.
Minimum wage laws mandate that if your job skills aren’t worth the minimum wage you must remain unemployed. They don’t guarantee anyone a job.
The minimum wage should be zero. That’s what some children of rich parents doing a Congressional internship work for. Children of poor parents should also have every opportunity to develop their job skills until they are worth well paid employment.
The minimum wage is always zero.
tough break. the Dems can’t even play the gender card (old white guys are ruining the planet!), because a couple wimmins and one tweener voted the wrong way.
their playbook is useless on this one.
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There should be no federal minimum wage, it should be up to each state, period.
DINOs? I don’t think so. Trust none of them.
He and others are trying to do a fast-track economic, etc. destruction of America to put ALL small businesses out of business with a “mandated”, etc. WAY TOO HIGH “minimum wage”, etc.
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