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Jeb Bush, governor of Florida (1999–2007), candidate for president in 2016 [137] [138] Arne Carlson, governor of Minnesota (1991–1999) (endorsed Kamala Harris) [139] Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey (2010–2018), U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (2002–2008) [140] [141] (did not vote for Trump in general election)
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]
As governor of Florida, Bush signed into law several bills "extending new rights to gun owners, including those to expand protections for people permitted to carry concealed firearms." [123] One such measure signed by Bush allows reciprocity for out-of-state permit holders. [123]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul halted a plan to charge most motorists $15 to enter the core of Manhattan, upending the nation’s first “congestion pricing” system on Wednesday just weeks before ...
The Senate voted to raise it on October 7, 2021, but only to grant the U.S. Treasury authority to borrow money until that December. That month, Congress voted to increase it by $2.5 (~$2.77 trillion in 2023) trillion, which President Biden signed into effect on December 16, 2021. [28] At that point, it was set at about $31.4 trillion. [29]
Harriet Miers, Legal Counsel to President Bush, was found in Contempt of Congress [476] Michael A. Battle, Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys in the Justice Department [477] Bradley Schlozman, Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys who replaced Battle [478] Michael Elston, Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty [479]
In 1980, Congress amended the reconciliation process, allowing it to be used at the start of the budget process. Later that year, President Jimmy Carter signed the first budget bill passed using the reconciliation process; the bill contained about $8 billion in budget cuts. [21]
Bill Clinton. Net worth: $120 million. The 42 nd president of the U.S., Bill Clinton held office from 1993 to 2001. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a ...