The Blog | Bob Geiger: Senate Democrats Hammer Through Minimum Wage Increase | The Huffington Post: "...by a resounding vote of 94-3, the United States Senate passed legislation raising the Federal Minimum Wage for the first time in a decade. The legislation increases the minimum wage over two years from the current $5.25 per hour to $7.25, after years of pushing by Kennedy and Senate Democrats and, most recently, eight days of fighting with Republicans, who proposed over 100 business-friendly amendments to stall the vote.
'Passing this wage hike represents a small but necessary step to help lift America's working poor out of the ditches of poverty and onto the road toward economic prosperity,' said Kennedy after the vote.
Now the measure goes to conference so that both houses of Congress can reach compromise on the House version of the minimum wage increase -- that went through as clean, standalone legislation -- and the Senate bill that required Democrats to agree to $8 billion in business tax cuts to avoid a lengthy Republican filibuster..."
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