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Pelosi Celebrates House Passing $15 Federal Minimum Wage Bill
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Jul 18, 201931:07Now PlayingAfter a week of raised tensions in Washington over politics and personalities, House Democrats are poised today to pass a major policy objective to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over six years.
The Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 582) has been a priority for Democrats, albeit one that had to overcome uncertainty from some members and pressure from the business community to get within reach of passage, Jaclyn Diaz and Chris Opfer report.
Despite the efforts to soften the proposal to get it past the finish line in the House, it doesn't appear to be gaining any traction in the Republican-controlled Senate.
"It is dead on arrival, as it should be," Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said.
The measure would increase the minimum wage in phases until it reached $15. It would tie the wage floor to inflation after that. It also proposes an elimination of exceptions to the minimum wage for tipped workers, teenage workers, and workers with disabilities.
"The American workers have experienced a pay cut in real income due to inflation and the government's failure to raise wages. It is unconscionable that people working full time in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world are unable to afford basic essentials or live in poverty," Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said on the House floor yesterday.
The bill's path to a vote wasn't easy. Concessions have been made since it was first floated in an effort to bring on board more moderate members who were initially worried about a wage boost's effect on smaller businesses and communities. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) introduced a last-minute amendment to extend the progression to $15 to six years, rather than the original five. That change was made when the House adopted the rule governing floor debate.
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