Senate rejects estate, minimum wage bill
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A Republican election-year effort to fuse a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates with the first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade was rejected by the Senate late Thursday.
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President Bush rejected legislation Wednesday that could have multiplied the federal money going into embryonic stem cell research, using the first veto of his presidency to underscore his stand on the emotionally charged, life-and-death issue.
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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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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 16--COLUMBIA -- A Midlands Senator on Thursday blocked passage of a bill that would allow city and county council members to excuse themselves, rather than having to resign, if business with associates or relatives comes before them.
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A sharply divided Senate on Thursday threw into doubt the fate of a White House-backed plan to revamp immigration laws.
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The Senate rejected attempts Monday by its senior members to rein in some proposed national intelligence director's powers, responsibilities that some lawmakers said senators wanted to reserve for themselves.
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The US Senate failed Wednesday to advance its own version of an economic stimulus program, boosting the odds for a White House-backed version approved last week by the House of Representatives.
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Legislation to overhaul the U.S.  private pension system suffered another setback on Thursday as  key House Republican lawmakers boycotted a negotiating meeting  in a fight over whether to keep some $35 billion in tax breaks  in the bill.
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The Senate narrowly rejected legislation on Wednesday that would have given military detainees the right to protest their detention in federal court
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The Senate cleared a path for a bill to hand out about $140 billion in corporate tax breaks, but it was blocked from a final vote by a fight over a provision aimed at helping reserve soldiers on active duty in Iraq.
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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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In a March 6 story about Senate action on a homeland security bill, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an amendment to guarantee each state a bigger share of $3 billion in homeland security grants survived a challenge in the Senate. The amendment failed.
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Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it's coupled with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, lawmakers said Friday.
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A proposed immigration overhaul survived a stiff challenge Wednesday as the Senate turned back a Democrat's bid to emphasize reuniting families more than job skills for many foreigners seeking to move to the U.S.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, but added small-business tax breaks that are unacceptable to House leaders, preventing Democrats from claiming a quick victory on one of their top legislative priorities.
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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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The Bush administration backed away Monday from a proposal that critics said would have forced many of the 2 million poor, elderly or disabled families who use government housing vouchers to foot more of the rent on their own or find substandard apartments.