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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]
The Speaker's lodgings in Washington, D.C., are most likely in his Cannon Office Building office. [236] The Johnsons have five children, including an adult son, Michael Tirrell James. Johnson and his wife met James, who is black, at an event for Young Life Ministries, [237] took him in, and assumed legal guardianship when he was 14 years old.
On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 [1] was released. The text was posted to the web site of the United States House Committee on Rules at 10:00 p.m. [2] H.R. 1625, formerly the TARGET act, was used as a legislative vehicle for the appropriations bill. [3]
Vance had also co-sponsored 288 bills, of which two passed both the Senate and the House, but were vetoed by President Biden. [78] On March 1, Vance and Senator Sherrod Brown cosponsored bipartisan legislation to prevent derailments like the one in East Palestine, [79] [80] but the bill failed due to lack of intra-caucus Republican support.
At the rally were Jodie Foster, Michael J. Fox, Keegan-Michael Key and other celebrities. [349] There were nearly 2,000 attendees. [348] February 27 – A peaceful protest that stopped some traffic occurred in Minneapolis in the evening. The protest drew between 150 and 200 demonstrators who protested Trump and were in support of $15 minimum ...
Clinton has expressed support for the "Fight for $15" campaign for higher minimum wages in individual states and cities (such as New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and St. Louis). [135] [136] [137] At a Democratic primary debate in 2016, Clinton said that if Congress passes a bill for a $15 federal minimum wage, she would sign it. [138]
Raúl Manuel Grijalva (/ r ɑː ˈ uː l ɡ r ɪ ˈ h æ l v ə / rah-OOL grih-HAL-və; born February 19, 1948) is an American politician and activist who has served as the United States representative for Arizona's 7th congressional district since 2023 and Arizona's 3rd congressional district from 2003 to 2023.
[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 ...