House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

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Hope this legislation gets passed. as $15.00/hr =  $ 31,200/ year  barely enough  to cover rent. heath insurance, food, clothing for a family --- as my one son has learned.

 

 

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5 hours ago, OldEMTNurse said:

The only thing is, look at what happened in Texas this week. Lots of freezing temps outside causing wind turbines to freeze up, and several thousand without heat or electricity for days.

Nearly 90% of Texas energy comes from coal or gas. And wind turbines work fine when properly winterized. The issue is that Texas decided they didn't want to deal with federal regulations, separated themselves from the rest of the country, and didn't prepare for cold weather.

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4 hours ago, OldEMTNurse said:

Yes, but they also kill babies and cut some of them up and store the parts in formaldehyde until those parts are needed for transplants.

Lies.

Why are you spreading nonsense in this thread. 

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4 hours ago, OldEMTNurse said:

Yes, but they also kill babies and cut some of them up and store the parts in formaldehyde until those parts are needed for transplants.

Not all Planned Parenthood locations offer abortion services. Nor is it even remotely near a high percentage of the services they do provide. As for the storing parts, please provide a reputable, reliable source for that declaration.

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20 hours ago, Rose_Queen said:

Not all Planned Parenthood locations offer abortion services. Nor is it even remotely near a high percentage of the services they do provide. As for the storing parts, please provide a reputable, reliable source for that declaration.

Understood concerning Planned Parenthood. The TV news article I viewed concerning parts of babies being stored on shelves (I saw the picture of the parts in jars sitting on the shelves) Hopefully they were just for medical research.

I just spent 2 hours searching for what I viewed, but was unsuccessful in finding it. The only thing I did find was an NBC news short related to this, but it wasn't clear as to the date.  I just remember being shocked when I viewed it.

Facts:

Planned Parenthood receives reasonable reimbursement for its tissue donation services, as expressly permitted by law.

Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act in 1993 with overwhelming bipartisan support.[7]

This law prohibits the receipt of any “valuable consideration” for fetal tissue while expressly permitting “reasonable payments” for costs, including “transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.”[8]

Planned Parenthood affiliates that participate in fetal tissue research “recover only their costs, as allowed under the federal law and our [Planned Parenthood’s] guidance.”[9]

Currently, only two of Planned Parenthood’s 59 affiliates participate in fetal tissue research. One is reimbursed for reasonable costs at $60 per specimen, and the other receives no reimbursements.[10]

Tissue procurement companies confirm that they reimburse Planned Parenthood only for “reasonable costs,” including “processing, preservation, quality control, transportation, and storage.”[11]

I apologize if I got this info wrong. 

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On 2/19/2021 at 2:34 PM, OldEMTNurse said:

Yes, but they also kill babies and cut some of them up and store the parts in formaldehyde until those parts are needed for transplants.

I've seen those before on my imaginary trip to the far east. They were called pickled babies and are used as palate cleansers. It could also have been pickled ginger slices? I get them mixed up sometimes ?????

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On 2/19/2021 at 10:58 AM, OldEMTNurse said:

The only thing is, look at what happened in Texas this week. Lots of freezing temps outside causing wind turbines to freeze up, and several thousand without heat or electricity for days.

What does this have to do with the minimum wage?

7 hours ago, OldEMTNurse said:

I just spent 2 hours searching for what I viewed, but was unsuccessful in finding it

Well, that is sad.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats have a “very strong argument” for including a $15-per-hour minimum wage in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic response bill, will include wage increase despite parliamentarian statement.

ABC News 2/25/21

Senate Parliamentarian: COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike
 

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The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress, Senate Democratic aides said.

The finding by Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, means Democrats face an overwhelmingly uphill battle to boost the minimum wage this year because of solid Republican opposition. Their proposal would raise the federal minimum gradually to $15 hourly by 2025, well above the $7.25 floor in place since 2009.

 

 

Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki  2/25/21

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President Biden is disappointed in this outcome, as he proposed having the $15 minimum wage as part of the American Rescue Plan. He respects the parliamentarian’s decision and the Senate’s process. He will work with leaders in Congress to determine the best path forward because no one in this country should work full time and live in poverty. He urges Congress to move quickly to pass the American Rescue Plan, which includes $1400 rescue checks for most Americans, funding to get this virus under control, aid to get our schools reopened and desperately needed help for the people who have been hardest hit by this crisis.

 

The Hill

Sen. Sanders slams parliamentarian decision on minimum wage

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29 minutes ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats have a “very strong argument” for including a $15-per-hour minimum wage in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic response bill, will include wage increase despite parliamentarian statement.

ABC News 2/25/21

Senate Parliamentarian: COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike
 

 

Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki  2/25/21

 

The Hill

Sen. Sanders slams parliamentarian decision on minimum wage

Doesn't this allow VP Harris to over-rule and or do away with the filibuster? 

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Harris can vote a tie but only if all Democratic Senators support bill.

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3 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats have a “very strong argument” for including a $15-per-hour minimum wage in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic response bill, will include wage increase despite parliamentarian statement.

ABC News 2/25/21

Senate Parliamentarian: COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike
 

 

Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki  2/25/21

 

The Hill

Sen. Sanders slams parliamentarian decision on minimum wage

Perfect example of Democrats cramming in liberal wishlist items into a bill that it has nothing to do with.

don't let a crisis go to waste,  is their motto.

 

 

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10 hours ago, Beerman said:

Perfect example of Democrats cramming in liberal wishlist items into a bill that it has nothing to do with.

don't let a crisis go to waste,  is their motto.

 

 

Trying to do something for the lowest paid workers during a crisis which has disproportionately harmed the working poor certainly upsets republicans.  The republicans understand that payroll taxes will go up for those folks this year and they, apparently, are not interested in giving them any financial break. This is an expected reaction from a member of the GOP now...austerity for we the people is their mantra. 

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