| AFSCME 2007 House Scorecard description
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The House approved a bill (H.R. 2) to raise the minimum wage from its current $5.15 an hour to $7.25 in three steps over the next 26 months.
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| AFSCME 2007 House Scorecard source
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Http://www.afscme.org/legislation-politics/19812.cfm +
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| American Conservative Union 2007 House Scorecard description
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The House passed a bill increasing the federal minimum wage by $2.10 over two years, to $7.25 an hour, a 41 percent increase, after rejecting provisions that would have assisted small businesses in meeting its requirements. ACU opposed this bill.
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| American Conservative Union 2007 House Scorecard position
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Nay +
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| American Conservative Union 2007 House Scorecard source
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Http://www.acuratings.org/ +
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| Americans for Democratic Action 2007 House Scorecard description
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Passage of a bill to increase the federal … Passage of a bill to increase the federal minimum wage by $2.10 over two years from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour. Sixty days after enactment, the minimum wage would be $5.85 an hour, a year later, $6.55 an hour, and the next year, $7.25 an hour. A federal minimum wage of $3.55 an hour would be extended to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 60 days after enactment, rising in 50-cent increments every six months until it reaches $7.25 per hour. Thus the Marianas would no longer be a sweat-shop haven for “Made in USA” goods. Passed 315-116. n for “Made in USA” goods. Passed 315-116.
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| Americans for Democratic Action 2007 House Scorecard position
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Aye +
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| Americans for Democratic Action 2007 House Scorecard source
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Http://www.adaction.org/pages/publications/voting-records.php +
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| Bill of vote
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U.S. minimum wage legislation +
, Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 +
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| Billnumber
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H2 +
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| Chamber
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111th United States Congress +
, U.S. Senate +
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| Club For Growth 2007 Senate Scorecard description
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Vote on the bill would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour over two years and provide $8.3 billion in small-business tax incentives The pro-growth vote was "nay" because the minimum wage is a market-distorting price control on labor. Passed 94-3.
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| Club For Growth 2007 Senate Scorecard source
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Http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2008/05/the 2007 congressional scoreca 1.php +
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| Congress number
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110th +
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| Congressnumber
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110 +
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| Drum Major Institute 2007 House Scorecard description
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At less than $11,000 a year for a full-tim … At less than $11,000 a year for a full-time worker, the federal minimum wage is a poverty wage. It is a rate at which it is impossible for working Americans to independently pay their rent, feed their families or get needed medical care—much less save for the types of investments that make it possible to work one’s way into the middle class, like an education, a first home or the chance to start a business. Contrary to the stereotype of the minimum wage worker as a teenager with nothing to purchase but junk food and movie tickets, the typical minimum wage worker is an adult providing more than half of his or her family’s total earnings. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly half of families with a worker who would benefit from a minimum wage increase rely on that worker’s pay as the family’s only source of earnings. As thirty-four states have raised their minimum wages above the federal rate, economists have also had more opportunities to study the effects of minimum wage increases, concluding that raising the minimum wage does not lead to the loss of jobs as critics had threatened. This version of the bill, without tax cuts for business, is significant because in the past ten years Congress showered businesses with hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks even as hardworking families earning the federal minimum wage received no raise at all, and in fact saw their paychecks eaten away by inflation aw their paychecks eaten away by inflation
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| Drum Major Institute 2007 House Scorecard position
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Aye +
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| Drum Major Institute 2007 House Scorecard source
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Http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/library/report.php?ID=63 +
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| FreedomWorks 2007 Senate Scorecard description
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This bill raises the nationally mandated minimum wage across the boad, increasing costs for small businesses and eliminating entry-level jobs for the least skilled workers. “Nay” votes scored
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| FreedomWorks 2007 Senate Scorecard position
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Nay +
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| FreedomWorks 2007 Senate Scorecard source
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Http://www.freedomworks.org/keyvotes/2007 senate.php +
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| Modification date
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| Roll call number
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18 +
, 42 +
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| Scorecard vote
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AFSCME 2007 House Scorecard +
, American Conservative Union 2007 House Scorecard +
, Americans for Democratic Action 2007 House Scorecard +
, Drum Major Institute 2007 House Scorecard +
, Club For Growth 2007 Senate Scorecard +
, FreedomWorks 2007 Senate Scorecard +
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| Session number
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1 +
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| Categories |
Economic Policy (U.S.) +
, U.S. legislation +
, Record votes +
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Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007
