Schwarzenegger Vetoes Minimum Wage Bill
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed bills Saturday that would have raised the minimum wage to &#36;7.75 an hour, made Wal-Mart-like megastores more difficult to build and limited schools' ability to give students random drug tests.
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Business lobbyists believe lawmakers will ultimately strip from Senate minimum wage legislation any sanctions against companies caught hiring illegal immigrants. Whether they can keep it out of immigration law is another matter
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Congress acted in its final hours Wednesday to block growth of the alternative minimum tax, putting off an economic hardship affecting more than 20 million taxpayers and avoiding what would have been a political black mark for both parties
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California Gov. Arnold  Schwarzenegger on Wednesday vetoed three bills aimed at   boosting e-mail privacy at work as well as safeguard private  medical and financial data.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has repeatedly called for fiscal discipline to heal the state budget, endorsed a ballot measure on Monday that would spend
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate cleared the way for an increase in the minimum wage Tuesday, but only with business tax breaks that House Democrats want removed.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.  - California Governor Arnold  Schwarzenegger on Wednesday called for a special session of the  legislature to consider controversial reform proposals,  including a law that would trigger across-the-board spending  cuts to close a widening budget gap.
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The California Assembly on   Thursday approved a bill to boost the minimum wage to $8 an   hour, the highest level in the nation, and sent it to Gov.   Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk for signing.
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A bill to raise California&#39;s minimum wage to $7.75 an hour over the next two years is headed to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, providing a major test of his pledge to reject
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite his gun-toting &quot;Terminator&quot; image, signed a law banning powerful sniper rifles, just after a US federal ban on assault weapons expired.
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell has vetoed a bill that would have given the state comptroller the authority to prescribe special accounting rules for the state.
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A bill filled with money for job training, health and education faces a veto from President Bush, who complains that Democratic add-ons have made it too expensive.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a compromise measure to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade -- and provide billions of dollars in tax breaks to help businesses pay for it. The vote was 348-73.
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The Senate voted 94-3 Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage in three steps from $5.15 to $7.25 in a bill that also gives $8 billion worth of tax cuts to small business.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a $145 billion state spending plan Friday, two months late and $700 million lighter than the legislature approved.
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The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a modest package of tax breaks for restaurants and small businesses that would be affected by an increase in the federal minimum wage, breaking a logjam with the Senate that has delayed passage of one of the Democrats' top legislative priorities.
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The chairman of the House taxwriting committee said Tuesday he would be willing to link tax breaks for small business to a hike in the minimum wage but that the $8 billion tax package adopted by the Senate was unacceptable.