Lawmakers to Get Federal Pay Raise
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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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Lawmakers continue to invite corporate lobbyists to help pay for fund-raisers that look a lot like the ones that Congress just barred lobbyists from sponsoring.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, but added tax breaks for small businesses that are unacceptable to House leaders, preventing Democrats from claiming a quick victory on one of their top legislative priorities.
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US lawmakers are nearing a fast-track plan aimed at boosting the economy and avoiding a possible recession.
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Congress yesterday approved a $447 billion defense bill with a military pay raise and new money for Iraq and Afghanistan. Underscoring the bill&#39;s
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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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Nearly 200 MPs, including David Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell, back calls for nurses to get a full 2.5% pay rise.
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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Friday that would more than double taxes on the pay of managers of private equity funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships.
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A review body is expected to recommend a pay rise of 2.8% for MPs, but Gordon Brown wants them to accept 1.9%.
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Congress on Saturday approved a &#36;477 billion defense bill with a military pay raise and new money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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What a difference a year makes. At the start of 2007, federal employees received an average raise of 2.2 percent, with about half receiving a 1.8 percent raise. This year, federal employees will see their pay rise by an average of 3.5 percent. About half will get a 2.99 percent raise. The differe...
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer has agreed to a pay raise for legislators, even as his budget called for strict cuts elsewhere, the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has told New York lawmakers.