Summary
Before leaving town for a month, the House yesterday morning approved the first minimum-wage increase in nearly a decade, as well as provisions that ease the estate tax and extend popular tax cuts.
House Republican leaders crafted a bill that combined the contentious minimum-wage increase, demanded by many liberal Republicans, with tax breaks and estate-tax relief prized by more conservative members. The measure was approved on a vote of 230- 180.See the full content of this document
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House Oks Increase of Minimum Wage
The bill's chances in the Senate are not clear because senators rejected a full repeal of the estate ta...
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