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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Vice President Al Gore broke a tie in the Senate on both the Senate bill and the conference report. The House bill passed 219–213 on Thursday, May 27, 1993. [1] The House passed the conference report on Thursday, August 5, 1993, by a vote of 218 to 216 (217 Democrats and 1 independent ( Bernie Sanders (I-VT)) voting in favor; 41 Democrats and ...
[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 ...