Republicans clear way for minimum-wage rise
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A Democratic campaign promise to boost the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade moved closer to completion on Tuesday when U.S. Senate Republicans lifted a roadblock against it.
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Republicans have momentum as campaign moves into final phase.
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Pointing toward midterm elections, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi promises to raise the minimum wage while cutting taxes to spur economic growth and help the middle class.
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Pointing toward midterm elections, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi promised on Thursday to raise the minimum wage while cutting taxes to spur economic growth and help the middle class.
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Three new wage levels are introduced for different age groups as part of the government's programme of minimum pay  rates.
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House Republicans pushed through legislation Tuesday aimed at reducing frivolous lawsuits.
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Republican presidential contenders on Sunday stepped up their drive to broaden their support in the hard-hit blue collar state of Michigan as the specter of economic recession took center stage in the US presidential race.
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A $1.3 billion small-business tax cut package aimed at winning the first minimum wage increase in more than a decade advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday.
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The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, fulfilling a major vow of the new Democratic-led Congress.
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Republican leaders, eager to deliver a pre-election victory to President Bush, moved closer to agreement Monday night on legislation needed to extend three popular middle-class tax cuts that are set to expire this year.
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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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With little debate, House lawmakers on Tuesday included themselves as part of a pay raise that all federal employees will receive next year.
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Both Democrats and Republicans insist they emerged as winners from last week's failed GOP effort to cut taxes on multimillion dollar estates and raise the minimum wage.
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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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Republicans in the State Senate forced through a measure to gradually raise the minimum wage by $2 to $7.15 an hour by January 2007.
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House Democrats plan to vote next week on a package of small-business tax breaks that could ease the way for final congressional action on legislation to raise the minimum wage.
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Technology employees are donating slightly more money to the Republican party.