The week
Senate votes on $ 15 minimum wage during vote-a-rama. Bernie Sanders looks intact.
The Senate struggled through a long series of votes late Thursday and early Friday, while Democrats voted most of the theoretically unlimited series of amendments to their budget resolution. Endurance, known as the ‘vote-a-rama’, is a long-respected tradition of reconciliation – the budgetary instrument that Democrats are likely to use to [President] Biden’s $ 1.9 billion coronavirus relief plan without any GOP support, “explains Politico. Most of the votes a-rama involve” Republicans forcing Democrats to force boring and awkward votes on a variety of issues, as Democrats Maxico reports, but some amendments have been met with dual support. For example, the senators approved an amendment by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to “the amendment”. banning raising the federal minimum wage during a global pandemic. “Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour is one of the heaviest lifts in Biden’s proposal.” A federal minimum wage of $ 15 would be devastating for us smallest businesses that have been hit the hardest, at a time when they can least afford it, “Ernst argued. The biggest proponent of the measure, chairman of the budget committee, Bernie Sanders (IV), is raising the vote, noting that his plan to increase the minimum wage over five years starts after the pandemic. “We need to address a crisis of starvation in Iowa and in the United States,” he said, adding that he “will do everything I can” to ensure that the measure is included in this reconciliation bill. ” The increase in the minimum wage can be stimulated by other factors: nervous Joe Manchin (DW.Va.) is opposed to it, and it can go wrong with the so-called Byrd rule restrictions that can be included in conciliation bills.The House President Nancy Pelosi ( D-California) said if it does not fit into this bill, Democrats will include it in other legislation, and the Senate has approved amendments to keep the U.S.-Israeli embassy in Jerusalem to prevent undocumented immigrants from get direct incentives, and – by a 99-1 vote – limit Biden’s $ 1400 checks to go to ‘higher-income taxpayers.’ The proposal, by Manchin and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), has not specified any revenue thresholds, and Biden’s proposal already includes phasing out checks to $ 300,000 a year households. Congress and the White House are negotiating the phasing out and cut – off points, and Biden is meeting Friday barking with Democratic leaders and committee chairmen to discuss the COVID-19 relief bill. More stories from theweek.com5 scary cartoons about GOP’s explosive Marjorie Taylor Greene’s problem with video account of video of 7-year-old Dylan Farrow debuting on HBOHouse investigators revealing Trump allies’ plans for rioting together – and has video of Roger Stone hanging out with a militia group