Minimum Wage, Minimum Conditions
December 8, 2006, 7:28pm
Increasing the minimum wage is a top priority of House Democrats for the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress, but getting that idea through the Senate may prove to be more challenging.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said any increase in the wage will have to be paired with “appropriate tax concessions” like the kind Republicans unsuccessfully proposed this year before he will support it.
“[I]f they come back in that form,” he said in a conference call with reporters to close out the 109th Congress, “I think we’re going to see quick approval. But if they come in with an agenda that is slanted against the average, ordinary taxpayer, if they come in with provisions that really slam the small-business community, then I think they’re going to have a difficult time getting those passed on the Senate side.”
Chambliss also noted that House Democrats have reneged on their pledge to implement all of the intelligence reforms proposed by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11., 2001, terrorist attacks. “There is a reason why did not implement those,” he said of Republicans while they controlled Congress, “and I think it’s finally dawned on [incoming House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi that they can’t fulfill that particular campaign promise.”
Categories: Georgia, Saxby Chambliss, Security, Labor
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