Date: November 9, 1999
Subject: Blocking Minimum Wage Increase
Description: Domenici (R-NM) motion to table (kill) the Kennedy (D-MA) amendment that would increase the minimum wage by $1 an hour over two years, to $5.65 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2000, and to $6.15 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2001. The amendment also would provide $9.5 billion in tax cuts over five years, offset by extending the Superfund tax and eliminating some corporate tax breaks.
Result: Motion to Table Agreed to, 50-48
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