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The impact on employers and workers within the restaurant industry is a major focus of the Fight for $15 movement. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurants and other food services employ about sixty percent of all workers paid at or below the minimum wage, as of 2018. [57]
William Proxmire, a United States Senator who represented the Democratic Party from Wisconsin, issued the award monthly from 1975 until 1988. [2] He issued 168 Golden Fleece Awards. [ 4 ] Though some members of the United States House of Representatives asked Proxmire's permission to continue the award, he declined, saying he might continue to ...
In November, Johnson proposed a two-tiered stopgap bill that continued spending at around current levels. [85] The bill was opposed by House conservatives and the Freedom Caucus, [85] [86] [87] but passed the House on November 14 with the support of 209 Democrats and 127 Republicans. [85] [87] It passed the Senate on the next day [88] and was ...
[15] Johnson's 2010 Senate campaign raised $15.2 million, $9 million of which was his own money. [16] [17] In June 2011, his financial disclosures showed that PACUR had paid him $10 million in deferred compensation in early 2011. The compensation covered the period from 1997 to 2011, during which he took no salary from PACUR.
The district had previously been the 15th, represented by 15-year incumbent Bill Green, a progressive Republican. She won with 51% of the vote. [ 15 ] The district, nicknamed the "silk stocking district", had been one of the few in the city in which Republicans usually did well; in fact, they held the seat for all but eight of the 56 years ...
[d] Following the loss of the Democratic super-majority in the Senate, House Democrats agreed to pass the Senate bill, while Senate Democrats agreed to use the reconciliation process to pass a second bill that would make various adjustments to the first bill. [30] The original Senate bill was passed by the House and signed into law by President ...
President Obama presenting the American Jobs Act to Congress. The American Jobs Act (H. Doc. 112-53) [1] and (H.R. 12) [2] was the informal name for a pair of bills recommended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a nationally televised address [3] to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, September 8, 2011. [4]
In September 2024, Hochul signed The Retail Worker Safety Act. [148] In December 2024, Hochul vetoed a bill sponsored by Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. that would speed up the licensing of three new casinos in Queens [149] and signed a law capping out-of-pocket costs for EpiPens at $100 yearly. [150]