CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings May 1, 2014
Democratic president s have signed minimum wage laws into law. Republican president s have signed minimum wage laws into law. President eisenhower signed a 33 increase in the minimum wage in 1955. President nixon signed a 44 minimum wage increase into law in 1974. George h. W. Bush signed a 27 minimum wage increase into law in 1989. In 1996, a Republicancontrolled Congress enacted a 21 minimum wage increase, which president clinton signed into law, and most recently, in 2007, president george w. Bush signed a 41 increase into law. You can see on this chart, madam president and i sigh to my fri...