Pelosi: ‘Increasing the Minimum Wage Is a Victory for America’s Families’

[Sapphire Blue]

Pelosi: ‘Increasing the Minimum Wage Is a Victory for America’s Families’

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on H.R. 2, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which passed on the floor with bipartisan support:

“After nearly a decade, 15 million hard-working families will finally receive the pay raise they have deserved for so long. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 will increase the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over the next two years, providing families with additional funds to cover the increasing costs of health insurance, gasoline and home heating, and attending college. With the passage of this crucial legislation, we will reward work, paying America’s workers a decent wage so they may join in our nation’s prosperity.

“From economic security to national security, the American people have resoundingly called for a New Direction. In the first 100 legislative hours of this Congress, House Democrats will continue to work to increase prosperity, opportunity, and security for all Americans, not just the privileged few.”

http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=0026

Thank you, every DUer who called, and every DUer who K&Red my threads!

Sapphire Blue
Resident DU Fanatic, Grateful, and Happy Beggar

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[BigNeeravT]

1. GO SPEAKER PELOSI!!!

You rock the House and bring it down!

[Sapphire Blue]

3. Welcome to DU, BigNeeravT!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

Speaker Pelosi is fantastic!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[DearAbby]

2. Excellent news! n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

4. Yes!

[LSK]

5. I think Pelosi is doing an AWESOME job

[Sapphire Blue]

6. Absolutely!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Graybeard]

26. Madame Speaker take a bow.

...Mrs. Pelosi is fulfilling campaign promises ...pronto. Showing what a "do something" congress looks like.

[Czolgosz]

7. K & R

[Sapphire Blue]

9. Hi, Czolgosz! Thanks!

:hi: :hug:

[Bjornsdotter]

8. It was a great day

...to watch the House of Representatives on C-span.

Cheers :toast:

[Sapphire Blue]

10. Fantastic!

:toast:

[bluewave]

11. What a country we live in, that someone can make $14,500 a year with zero skills or training.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765536/posts#16

Sickening.

Have these people tried to live on $14k per year?

[Sapphire Blue]

12. I don't read trash.

[bluewave]

16. You're right, I shouldn't either.

It's just too bad this face is not the one the "American people" sees as the NeoCon party. We'd never lose an election if the people saw them for what they are.

[Sapphire Blue]

23. Stop! Now! Slap your hands silly if you ever even think of going back there!

:spank:

From now on, stay right here @ DU ;)!

Eyes are opening; the backwash keeps shrinking.

[sandnsea]

17. They make $8 an hour

after working for 10 years because they're too stupid to stand up for themselves and demand a decent wage. That's where that kind of post comes from.

[Rosemary2205]

18. Excuse me but

anyone who's come home from Krogers withOUT the milk packed on top the bread or the chips or the grapes knows a good bagger is worth way more than $14,500 a year. Same goes for the fast food person bagging the togo orders. If you get home without your sandwiches squished at the bottom of the bag you know that place found a skilled artist. :)

Seriously though, claiming minimum wage employees LACK SKILLS is just assinine. The only thing one can claim is that the labor pool is full of people with comparable skills and employers are unwilling to pay more than the minimum to obtain those skills.

[bluewave]

21. Well said. n/t

[sandnsea]

24. Patience is a skill

Which every minimum wage worker MUST develop in order to put up with the bullshit heaped on them while they're barely making a subsistence income. I know, because I don't have any patience!!

[Rosemary2205]

51. Amen to that!!

it amazes how seldom the poor go postal in this country. Just getting a bank account that zeroes out every month requires the patience of mother theresa. Not to mention all the other crap we put them through at their jobs.

Excellent point. Thank you.

[bobbolink]

54. Somebody HAS to do those jobs, right? Where would we all be without them??

Are there toilets to be cleaned?

Streets to be cleaned?

Need I go on?

If they all quit tomorrow, what would we all do?

Suddenly, they're worth more, eh? :hi:

And, yes... you are soooo very right.... the patience it takes!

Thanks for your words of understanding! :thumbup:

[Clark2008]

44. My husband would stand up and applaud this post.

He worked as a bagger in high school and is constantly amazed at how piss-poor the bagging jobs are done at most stores now.

Small potatoes (no pun intended) with what's going on in the world, but an excellent point, none-the-less.

[LSK]

22. IDIOTS

:grr:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. Isn't it sweet to see a 315 - 116 vote when it's for something good?

This was way past time in coming, and I'm thrilled to see it moving forward!

[Sapphire Blue]

15. Soooo good. Oh, soooo good!

Next comes the Senate.

[sandnsea]

14. Oh, it passed, Yay!!

Now we need the student loan interest cut. This stuff is going to help so many people, and they're getting it all done while doing a great job fighting the escalation too.

[Sapphire Blue]

19. Yes, it did.

Cutting the student loan interest is part of the 100 hours. We'll get that done, too. :thumbsup:

[mvd]

20. Go Pelosi and thanks, Sapphire Blue

I'm sorry I didn't call Gerlach, but he voted our way anyway. Lois Murphy must have scared him!

[Sapphire Blue]

25. Hooray for Pelosi!

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[PA Democrat]

27. And thanks to YOU Sapphire Blue for rallying the DU troops

to make all those phone calls.

[Sapphire Blue]

28. We've sure got the troops!

:toast: to DU!

[Solly Mack]

29. Recommended

[Sapphire Blue]

32. Hi, Solly Mack! Thanks!

:hi: :hug:

[Morgana LaFey]

30. WHAT is she smoking?

My God in Heaven -- is she too this out of touch:

The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 will increase the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over the next two years, providing families with additional funds to cover the increasing costs of health insurance, gasoline and home heating, and attending college.

Gasoline maybe, home heating probably, but health insurance and college? Hardly.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

46. I agree with you. This is not a living wage. Period. eom

[AtomicKitten]

31. Bravo Democrats and Sapphire Blue!!!

I know many, many Americans are celebrating today! This is LONG overdue.

[Sapphire Blue]

33. Cheers to the Dems!

:toast:

and...

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[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

34. R! and kick

[Sapphire Blue]

36. Thanks, OnceUponTimeOnTheNet!

:hi:

[patrice]

35. Thanks All!

:bounce:

Let's DO this.

Hare Krsna!

[Sapphire Blue]

39. Many, many thanks!

:hi:

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. Where can I find Roll Call? I want to see if Pinhead really did vote against.

You'll hear me falling off my chair if he voted in favor.

[Sapphire Blue]

38. FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 18

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2007&rollnumber=18

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. Yep, as predicted. Pinhead wants to keep fellow Americans destitute...

and perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

Thanks! I always have a devil of a time navigating the Clerk's site. Heck, I ended up somewhere that told me HR2 had been referred to committee and that's as far as it got.

[Sapphire Blue]

41. That's what the repubs wanted; they didn't get it, though.

[NYC Liberal]

45. Hey, here's the site where it's all at (the less confusing part of house.gov)!

It lists all the major actions of the day and you just click on the particular link for the bill you're looking for. You want the roll calls where it tells you "On passage Passed by recorded vote: xxx-xxx"

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html?day=20070110&today=20070110

:hi:

[Clark2008]

49. Yeah! My (decent) Republican representative vote "aye."

John Duncan was also one of the few Republicans to vote against the IWR.

He's a rare breed of old-time Republican, that one.

If I can't have a Democrat in my house seat (and I can't - too many Republicans in the district as a whole), then I'm glad I have THIS Republican.

[NYC Liberal]

42. Here you go: 315-116!

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2007&rollnumber=18

82 Repukes voted FOR it! *0* Dems voted against it!

[Nutmegger]

43. This is for you SB:

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[goclark]

47. Ditto hugs for Sapphire

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[Sapphire Blue]

50. ...

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[Sapphire Blue]

48. And this for you, my friend...

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[WiseButAngrySara]

52. Bless you Sapphire Blue! You are awesome! knr ....n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

53. ...

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[Sydnie]

55. No, THANK YOU!

You are tenacious, and for that, we are grateful! :grouphug:

:woohoo:

[Sapphire Blue]

56. So many DUers helped, including YOU! Thanks!

:hug: :loveya:

That's me alright... a tenacious little beggar ;)

[calimary]

57. YES! We called. We nagged, too. We begged, too. And it worked.

Let's keep it up, 'eh? Lots more still remaining to be dealt with. And the more of these things we accomplish, the better, because:

A) it makes the Dems look good, like people who keep their promises.

B) it further demoralizes the enemy, and the wavering ones among them are, bit by bit, rendered more likely to defect, or at the very least, to vote with us more frequently - ESPECIALLY those who see their own necks on the block in '08.

C) it adds to the MOMENTUM that we've built. It's like that rule of thumb in real estate. The three most important things here are MOMENTUM, MOMENTUM, MOMENTUM. That giant sucking sound that you will hear generated by this is the sound of more of the enemy crying "uncle" and giving up, or more of them shedding their enemy status and doing one of those "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" maneuvers. EITHER WAY, OUR SIDE WINS. Adding to the momentum only ENHANCES the PERCEPTION we NEED to enhance with the voters - that WE are the adults in charge, that WE are the people who actually get things done, and WE are the party to be trusted with the country's business. THAT is going to be CRITICAL going into '08. If it unfolds favorably for us, it is highly likely that the "great realignment" kkkarl rove envisioned and designed and worked to set up for the national political scene over the next few decades WILL come to pass - only, it'll happen for a different political party than the one he envisioned. Remember: PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING!!!

[Sapphire Blue]

59. Speaking of... **** PLEASE HELP: Call To Action on Stem Cell (H.R. 3) Vote TOMORROW!! *****

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3086660 (This one's from another DU Beggar ;) )

[calimary]

61. Excellent! Let's knock 'em out one after another. Each one of 'em

knocked straight outta the ballpark.

I'm telling ya - EVERY score here adds to our MOMENTUM, and the PERCEPTION that WE are the happening party. WE are the ones who do the people's business. And if you run into skeptics or apologists for the wrong-wing, you might want to point out that all the 100 Hours agenda items are LIBERAL ITEMS, LIBERAL IDEAS, that the VAST VAST MAJORITY of the American people WANTS. That's why they voted US in, last November, and threw out the rubber-stamp status quo.

Put THAT in your knuckle-dragger, 13th-century-mind, GOP rubber-stamper pipe and smoke it. If YOU guys were so great and doing so well for America, YOU'D still be in charge.

[sinkingfeeling]

58. ABC News said the Chimp would agree to it only if there were additional tax breaks

added to help businesses. Hope the Senate can get it through without the GOP goons attaching crap to it.

[Sapphire Blue]

60. We have to work on the Senate!

[Czolgosz]

62. I can't believe even Bush is stupid enough to veto this popular bill. If he does, we'll see Bush

finally tie Nixon:



Bush is already reaching his all time low and heading further down:

[UrbScotty]

63. Indeed it is! (nt)

[Ian_rd]

64. Oh, snap, she said "family" totally violating the Republican copyright!

"Family" was copyrighted by the Republicans in the 90s to mean "Homos are coming! Eeek!" She could be sued over this. What's next, Nancy, dropping the terms "morals" and "values?"