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Under president bush, 2007 or 2008. i was working for senator kennedy in 1996. i believe the speaker of the house was newt gingrich. the minimum wage was increased then, one of my predecessors, elizabeth dole, indicated that one of her proudest accomplishments was securing the passage of the minimum wage. so i think it can be done. it enjoyed rich bipartisan history. >> a lot of things that enjoyed rich bipartisan history is food stamps, minimum wage, i think weve seen it become undone. >> i thi...

2008. i was working for senator kennedy in 1996. i believe the speaker of the house was newt gingrich. the minimum wage was increased then, one of my predecessors, elizabeth dole, indicated that one of her proudest accomplishments was securing the passage of the minimum wage. so i think it can be done. it enjoyed rich bipartisan history. >> a lot of things that enjoyed rich bipartisan history is food stamps, minimum wage, i think weve seen it become undone. >> i think you have seen the brush fir...

Same sex wedding. shafer told the group in philadelphia yesterday he has no intention of doing that. and he said church officials will have to defrock him if they want him out of the ministry. in the catholic church, the pope removed an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage and abortion from a powerful post. conservative cardinal raymond burke, the former archbishop of replaced with another american cardinal, the archbishop of washington, d.c. this move is soon as reinforcement of the popes vi...

Legislation vocally, but more privately said he thought it was the lesser of two evils. so we have to be fair here, hes not a progressive but is moving in a more progressive direction than his progressive direction than his predecessors. if we think about catholics around the world, maybe young queer kids that say i cant be part of this if im religious, and they are thinking about suicide, if were talking about families who feel divided from the church because of the policies, even priests and o...

Other administrations? that is part one. and second part pushing off the l regulations, congress puts all deadlines after the elections. the president obama is doing something that congress does overtly. >> it is politics as usual. from a president who said he wasnt going to give us politics as usual. i think a lot of people dont think it was a coincidence that campaigns in iraq happened right after the election and not right before. i think people obviously if you lose the election you lose the...

Inches possible, especially in and around new york city, maybe some higher amounts just to the north of new york city. these systems are called alberta clippers. they race through an area. theyre very quick but they pack a punch. we could even see as much as 6 inches up across parts of massachusetts. now, the heaviest of it in new england is going to fall by mid-afternoon, so while the morning commute here in the tri-state area was an issue, its the evening commute up through boston thats going ...

Image on his cheek. >> a little creative license there. this was not a unanimous decision by the advocate staff. a lot of our readership has been vocal in letting us know what they think about it. if we think about the person, the single person who can change minds globally, this is a global decision, i think pope francis is really that person. there are 1.2 billion catholics around the world. and if the pope is telegraphing acceptance where theres a sharp divide between his predecessors and thi...

It is that he is -- i ron nicly he appears to be less catholic than his predecessors, minnesota catholics in america, 90% of catholics in america disagree with the vatican on social issues and birth control. and it looks like the appearance is that this pope is more concerned about the real world. this world than puffing up the glory of the church with its mid evil principles of fighting human progress. >> you have got that out of your system now? you have got it out? >> not quite. if you give m...

Many ways, are repudiation of his predecessors. in fact, i see them linking back to his predecessors in a profound way. john paul ii, his papacy was about the reform of the reform. the reform since vatican ii, giving it context, giving it the substance that was missing post vatican ii. benedict was much more dock trial. his was taking the reform and giving it basis through theology and through church teaching. this pope is now taking and relating it back in a human way and saying, look, its a fu...

Called mandelas greatest gift. >> mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit. theres a word in south africa. his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye, that theres a oneness to humanity, that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others and caring for those around us. >> president obama was joined by several of his predecessors, jimmy carter, bill clinton and george w. bush along with a congressional delegation that included members...