{"id":7792,"date":"2006-06-27T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2006-06-27T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T21:06:16","slug":"dems-vow-to-block-pay-raises-until-minimum-wage-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dems-vow-to-block-pay-raises-until-minimum-wage-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems vow to block pay raises until minimum wage increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting and waiting for [tag]congressional[\/tag] Dems to do something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/06\/27\/congress.wage.reut\/index.html\">exactly like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tag]Democrats[\/tag] ratcheted up their election-year push for an increase in the federal [tag]minimum wage[\/tag] Tuesday by promising to block a [tag]congress[\/tag]ional [tag]pay hike[\/tag] unless some of the lowest-paid hourly workers get their first raise in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress is going to have earn its raise by putting American workers first: A raise for workers before a raise for Congress,&#8221; said Senate Democratic leader [tag]Harry Reid[\/tag] of Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>[tag]Reid[\/tag] refused to spell out exactly how he will block a $3,300 [tag]pay raise[\/tag] scheduled for January 1 for members of Congress, who currently earn $165,200 annually. He said with 40 Senate Democrats backing the maneuver, &#8220;We can stop anything they ([tag]Republicans[\/tag]) try to do with a congressional pay raise.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes so much political sense, it&#8217;s astounding it took this long. The public strongly supports an increase to the minimum wage and strongly opposes lawmakers giving themselves a raise.<\/p>\n<p>Reid and the Dem leadership are making this simple: if members want their cost-of-living-increase, then they better be ready to increase the minimum wage for the first time since 1996. (Since the last minimum-wage increase, salaries for members of Congress have gone up $31,600.)<\/p>\n<p>For Dems, it&#8217;s a winner: it&#8217;s not only the right policy for working families and the economy, but it&#8217;s also the right political stand on two issues that matter to voters. Dems can be a little slow sometimes, but they usually manage to get it right eventually&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting and waiting for [tag]congressional[\/tag] Dems to do something exactly like this. [tag]Democrats[\/tag] ratcheted up their election-year push for an increase in the federal [tag]minimum wage[\/tag] Tuesday by promising to block a [tag]congress[\/tag]ional [tag]pay hike[\/tag] unless some of the lowest-paid hourly workers get their first raise in nearly a decade. &#8220;Congress is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}