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When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
[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.
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 ...
Gregg Nunziata, executive director, Society for the Rule of Law, Federalist Society member, Chief Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, policy counsel to the Senate Republican Policy Committee, general counsel to Sen. Marco Rubio, attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division [249] [250]
U.S. intensive chicken farming led to the 1961–1964 "Chicken War" with Europe. The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks (and originally on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy) imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken. [1]
William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American lawyer, author, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine.A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979–1997), and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
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 ...
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 ...