House votes to increase minimum wage
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday 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.
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The House voted Thursday to overhaul the housing voucher program, the federal government's largest effort to help low-income families find affordable housing.
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The 352-64 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed the Temporary Tax Relief Act keeping the alternative minimum tax from hitting more people in 2007.
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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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Legislation to lower interest rates on student loans and increase aid to poor people who want to go to college won House approval on Wednesday.
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The House of Representatives on  Saturday voted to gradually increase the federal minimum wage  to $7.25 an hour and also to cut estate taxes paid mostly by  the wealthy.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Thursday voted to increase the federal credit limit by $800  billion to $8.184 trillion, a move that will allow the measure  to be sent to President Bush for signing into law.
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The House planned to vote Tuesday afternoon on the $150 billion economic aid package that would mean tax rebates to most income earners
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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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Federal employees would receive a 3.5 percent pay raise next year under a bill approved by a key House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday.
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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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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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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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The US Senate votes to raise the minimum wage by $2.10 per hour to $7.25 and cut taxes for small firms.
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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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A bill to allow workers to form  unions by signing up, instead of voting, advanced in the U.S.  House of Representatives on Wednesday as the Bush  administration threatened to veto it.
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Union construction workers would gain a hiring advantage for more projects under legislation the House passed Thursday, the latest in a series of pro-labor measures by Democrats that President Bush has promised to veto.