Senate Agrees to Invoking Cloture on Minimum Wage 88-8!

[usregimechange]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00039

Losers voting to stall the minimum wage increase:

NAYs ---8
Coburn (R-OK)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Martinez (R-FL)
Vitter (R-LA)

All Republicans. Of course.

[PDJane]

1. Oh, hell........

of course. What is wrong with these people?

It's ok to privatize everything, including the army, but not to pay people at the bottom enough to exist on?

Christ on toast points.

[noahmijo]

2. Jon Kyl from here in Arizona of course this meandering piece of shit

useless fucking phlem wad no good sack of shit prick sackless putz punkass bitch would pull something like this.


On another note please excuse my shyness and incredible ability to be timid I know I really should just let my true feelings show... :)

[Larry Allen]

3. Wow

What happened to the ammendments? How many stuck? We need a list of poison pills. How poison and how many? Apparently Kennedy's question "How much greed?" now has an answer.

[Sydnie]

4. So when do they vote on the bill itself?

Cloture just stops debate. Did they move the bill out after that or give it a delay until tomorrow?

[usregimechange]

7. That is what I am trying to figure out. Not sure.

:shrug:

[Selatius]

5. Anybody know how many rider amendments the Repubs managed to tack onto the bill?

More corporate welfare? Tax cuts for the rich?

[me b zola]

6. That's what I'm worried about...

Too few in oposition. The Publicans were fighting way too hard for tax cuts for me to think that this got through clean.

[Yukari Yakumo]

8. The four who didn't vote

Biden (D-DE)
Brownback (R-KS)
Hagel (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)

Johnson we can understand. What was Biden doing?

[usregimechange]

10. Pulling the foot out of his throat?

[muntrv]

9. The crazy 8 believe in paying slave wages.

[RB TexLa]

11. This is ridiculous, I'm a pretty moderate Democrat and I wouldn't think twice about

supporting raising the minimum wage to $7.25. There isn't any need for the tax breaks either, so what if I and everyone else have to pay $155 instead of $150 for a hotel room, or $5.65 instead of $5.25 for our combo meal, and other services and goods which rely heavily on minimum wage workers. Most people won't mind, because they know why it is there, and the ones who bitch about it will eventually stop bitching, but they are going to pay it while they are bitching. These 8 are just way off the chart.