From MyDD:
Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), evidently convinced that he was beating a dead horse by continuing his quest to ban flag-burning and discriminate against gay people, announced this month that he would not seek reelection in 2008 and the thought of having so little time left to screw the working poor from a comfy U.S. Senate seat must have just been eating him alive.
Allard, who has voted against a minimum wage increase more often than Fox News smears Barack Obama, went for broke this week and introduced a bill that would have eliminated the Federal Minimum Wage entirely and left the wage rate for the lowest-paid workers to each state.(…)
Clearly, with only 28 of 49 Republicans voting for this bill, the reason Republicans did not try and pass this legislation during their time in the majority was because they did not have the votes. Forget that it is insane, 19th century, political suicide–that didn’t stop them most of the time. It it is enlightening to look at the Senators who did vote to abolish the federal minimum wage, including Cornyn, McCain, Hagel and Sununu.
28 Republican Senators put themselves on record as voting to repeal the minimum wage, on the proposed amendment by Sen. Allard. Just remember that, folks. Three potential Republican Presidential candidates are on that list, including the frontrunner, and Sen. Hagel. More hypocrisy from the Republican Party.
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