White privilege.
Posted on 02/25/2021 4:52:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Senate Parliamentarian told lawmakers Thursday night that the increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour shouldn’t be included in the Democrats’ coronavirus relief package under the chamber’s rules, according to a Senate aide.
The parliamentarian, the neutral arbiter of the chamber’s rules, issued guidance saying she believed it didn’t meet the guidelines for reconciliation, the process that Democrats are using to pass their relief aid. and would be ruled out of order.
(Story below will update.)
WASHINGTON—Capitol Hill waited Thursday for the Senate parliamentarian to weigh in on whether the chamber’s rules would permit Democrats to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
The decision by Elizabeth MacDonough, the chief Senate parliamentarian, will set the stage for an intense debate among Democrats about how to proceed on the contentious provision. Democrats, who can’t afford to lose a single vote among their own ranks to pass the bill in an evenly divided Senate, have split over the push to raise the federal minimum wage, which would boost it to $15 an hour over four years
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Off with her head!!!
Good for her.
Hopefully you are being sarcastic.
White privilege.
It’s a great idea, increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for restaurant workers who aren’t even working; and make it all that more difficult to re-open restaurants whenever that day comes (your state may vary... mine, open for patio dining only or take-out).
Someone on War Room said the GOP should call their bluff and support $15 minimum wages on big box retailers but leave mom and pops alone and watch how fast the left drops it.
Rules are only for the little people
Fast food workers where I live won’t even hire on at $15.00. The job market is booming here.
You live in South Florida?
Convenient out for Biden, blame it on “procedures”
AOC and other progressives said they would vote against thd bill if the minimum wage was dropped - unless it was axed by the parlimintarian.
This lets her proceed without a Dem civil war.
LET’S BRING BACK THE 5 CENT CANDY BAR
When politicians particularly members of today’s in name only democrat party started pushing for a higher minimum wage. The focus should have been on purchasing power of the lowest coin of the realm. Each time it was passed the price of an item like an individual candy bar and everything else increased. What began at 5 cents in the 1940’s was when the minnimum wage was 50 cents an hour . As the rate steadily increased so did candy bar prices to what it is today. The result has always been since it began devaluing the purchasing power of the dollar.
She made the correct choice.
Yep, Dems can claim that they were for the 15$ wage and yet the rules just would not allow it. Yet they tried. Therefore vote Dem. They will keep trying.
“The result has always been since it began devaluing the purchasing power of the dollar.”
And yet the poorest people today have luxuries the richest people of the 1940’s didn’t have.
I wonder what will be said during that "debate." Watch your back, Liz.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
What’s this “under the chamber’s rules stuff?”
Patriots, the Senate’s stealing of 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state powers to set minimum wages is a great example of your misguided 17th Amendment powers to elect flunky senators at work.
Patriots are reminded that “minimum wage” shows up nowhere in Congress’s Commerce Clause powers.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, one of the examples that Justice Joseph Story had volunteered to emphasize Congress’s very limited Commerce Clause powers is that the states had never amended the Constitution to give Congress the express power to set “the wages of labor,” minimum wage uniquely a state power issue.
"Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphasis added]." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
Many members in both Houses of Congress, especially desperate Democrats, are alway rebelling against the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers by supporting legislation that steals 10A-protected state powers, and should lose their lawmaking jobs under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for doing so imo.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
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