Who were the 52 senators that supported the min. wage increase? nt

This would clarify their roles as public servants, and even prod the 48 misers to
consider being as generous to the people as they are to themselves.

with the role financing plays in campaigns. It's not quite the case that you have to be rich to get elected, but I've never had a representative (other than at the state level) who didn't have access to much deeper bank accounts than I do ...

there would be a turnover of seats in congress every two years, like our constitution meant for it to be...instead of multi-millionaires sitting in congressional seats for life...How can they represent the average American?

Obviously, they don't!!!

all Dems (except Rockefeller didn't vote), Jeffords, Chaffee, Snowe, DeWine, Luger, Specter, Warner, Coleman, Collins

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00179

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Kennedy Amdt. No. 4322 )
Vote Number: - 179
Vote Date: June 21, 2006, 11:20 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2 -
Vote Result: - Amendment Agreed to :shrug:
Amendment Number: - S.Amdt. 4322 to S. 2766 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 )
Statement of Purpose:
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.

Vote Counts:
YEAs - 52
NAYs - 46
Not Voting - 2

Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---52

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

Arizona - neither voted for an increase.
Kansas - neither voted for an increase. (Kansas has a minimum wage LOWER than Federal)
Louisiana - one voted for an increase.
Mississippi - neither voted for an increase.
Alabama - neither voted for an increase.
Tennessee - neither voted for an increase.
South Carolina - neither voted for an increase.

Senators from states with minimum wage rates the same as the Federal ...
Nevada - one voted for an increase.
Idaho - neither voted for an increase.
Utah - neither voted for an increase.
Montana - one voted for an increase.
Wyoming - neither voted for an increase.
Colorado - one voted for an increase.
New Mexico - one voted for an increase.
Texas - neither voted for an increase.
North Dakota - both voted for an increase.
South Dakota - one voted for an increase.
Nebraska - one voted for an increase.
Oklahoma - neither voted for an increase.
Iowa - one voted for an increase.
Missouri - neither voted for an increase.
Arkansas - both voted for an increase.
Michigan - both voted for an increase.
Indiana - both voted for an increase.
Ohio - one voted for an increase.
Kentucky - neither voted for an increase.
West Virginia - one voted for an increase.
Virginia - one voted for an increase.
North Carolina - neither voted for an increase.
Pennsylvania - one voted for an increase.
Georgia - neither voted for an increase.
New Hampshire - neither voted for an increase.

There's not much question about where the ignorance (poor education) and cheap labor exploiters correlate, is there?

Don't they? I would think they would fall under that at least! Gheesh!

Snip-->
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 18 states and Washington, D.C.,
have minimum wage rates higher than the federal rate. They include:
Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, N.Y., Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, R.I., Connecticut, N.J.,
Delaware and Maryland. (Michigan's minimum wage will go up in October.) <--snip

Guess who is feeling the heat and is voting in best interest of his constituents?

Chafee (R-RI)Running for Re-election
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
DeWine (R-OH)Runnign for Re-election
Lugar (R-IN)Running for Re-election though unopposed
Snowe (R-ME) Running for Re-election
Specter (R-PA)

This is looking like some good bills showing what matters to whom...

Ohio has been passing petitions HARD to increase the minimum wage on this November's ballot...plus DeWine is a flea hair away from losing his senate seat...he either has to cater to the more liberal and moderates or he will certainly be toast before it even starts.

I do have to ask because I have been out for some time,was that nasty abortion ban amendment on crossing state lines still attached to this thing?

Not surprised, he should be desperate. Good for Ohio that its such an important issue.

I don't have an answer to your question. I haven't been following it.

He's down in the polls, so far. As for the abortion ban, this was the last that I heard:

http://www.newsnet5.com/health/9361385/detail.html

attached to this federal legislation though...I thought I saw on DU earlier that if you voted FOR a minimum wage increase, you would also be voting for another abortion regulation...however, I cannot see ANY Repub to the right not voting for it too...maybe it got pulled off.

:wow:

:grr:

Because of the budget act, Republicans could have made a point of order against the amendment that would have required 60 votes to overturn. Instead, they just enterered a unanimous consent agreement that if the amendment is agreed to with less than 60 votes, it would be withdrawn.

bottom line - No Minimum Wage hike! Mutha fuka's!!
Isn't it because frist added an amendment concerning abortion and crossing state lines? :shrug:
:grr: :grr:

Repigs HATE poor people!!! VOTE THEM OUT!! :nuke:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200606%5CNAT20060621d.html
Dems Blast Republicans for Blocking Minimum Wage Hike
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 21, 2006

(CNSNews.com) -

The AFL-CIO and union-friendly Democrats are blasting congressional Republicans
for blocking a minimum wage increase.

"You need to tell your members of Congress to stop this nonsense and give us a
clean vote on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour," said the AFL-CIO's
Working Families e-Activist Network in a message to supporters on Tuesday.

Congress has not passed a federal minimum wage increase since 1997,
and "it's still stuck at an intolerable $5.15 an hour,"
Working Families said in a press release.

The group noted that members of Congress have voted themselves nine raises
- totaling nearly $35,000 a year - in that ten-year period.
($35,000 a year is more than three times the $10,712 entire yearly earnings
of a full-time minimum wage worker, Working Families said.)

Democrats have made a higher minimum wage part of their fall election campaign.

snip-->
Pelosi said Republicans "have the opportunity to do the right thing"
by joining Democrats in passing a minimum wage increase - "for America's working families.

"If Republicans continue to block increasing the minimum wage --
which a strong majority of Americans support -- Democrats' New Direction for America
means that on the first week we control Congress, we will pass a minimum wage increase."

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We MUST take back control of the House and Senate!!

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/echochamber/37922/

Update (06/21/06 1:30 PM EDT): The Frist anti-abortion amendment to Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) attempt
to raise the minimum wage has been withdrawn and Kennedy's bill,
along with a faux bill to hike the wage rate by Mike Enzi (R-WY) have both been rejected.
The Senate web site is reporting these votes somewhat inaccurately right now
and I will post later on what really happened.
Bottom line in that a minimum wage increase has at least temporarily been defeated.

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I was scratching my head as on the senate website it says it HAS BEEN AGREED TO!!

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00179
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Agreed to