Pelosi to fast-track minimum wage bill
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Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to fast-track efforts to boost the federal minimum wage and could seek to bring a bill directly to the House floor in January.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with small business tax cuts and limits on corporate pay that could complicate its path to become law.
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Democrats plan to press for a minimum wage increase and "tough, smart" national security in their final push to wrest power from the Republicans in the November elections.
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The incoming Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, is planning to expropriate the second-floor suite of offices now occupied by the current speaker, J. Dennis Hastert.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The House was expected to take up legislation as early as Thursday to extend popular middle-class tax cuts that would otherwise expire at the end of the year.
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The measure would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 in three stages over two years.
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When Democrats blasted Republicans last fall for taking annual congressional pay raises while blocking numerous attempts to raise the minimum wage, it was an effective campaign tactic. Democrats vowed not to accept the annual cost-of-living adjustment until Congress increases the minimum wage.
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As the Senate moved toward passage of the first increase in the minimum wage in 10 years, Democrats in the House and Senate were trying to reconcile differences between their two bills.
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The nation's lowest-paid workers will soon find extra money in their pockets as the minimum wage rises 70 cents to $5.85 an hour today, the first increase in a decade.
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House leaders have added legislation raising the federal minimum wage to an emergency spending bill for the Iraq war. They hope to break a logjam with the Senate over the wage bill, a top Democratic priority that was once seen on Capitol Hill as a relatively easy compromise.
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RICHMOND, Feb. 15 -- A House committee revived a proposal Thursday to raise the state's minimum wage to $6.50 an hour by sending the measure to the full House, even though Republican leaders have fought the move.
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Just before the July 4 deadline she set for coming up with an "energy independence" package of legislation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to pull together the pieces of an energy bill from 10 committees and warring Democratic leaders.
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If they retake control of Congress, Democrats will act quickly to increase the minimum wage, lower prescription drug costs and slash interest rates on student loans, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the  U.S. House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted  Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide  emissions this year.
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The House is expected to approve legislation this week that seeks to increase exponentially the amount of money broadcasters and performers would have to pay for indecency violations.
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The House yesterday overwhelmingly approved a modest package of tax breaks for restaurants and small businesses, moving Congress one step closer to approving the first increase in the federal minimum wage in nearly a decade.
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The measure, which would raise the wage rate for the nationâs lowest paid workers to $7.25 an hour from $5.15, was attached to the Iraq spending bill.