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Earned the trust of low level workers when he made a pledge during his state of the union address. the president promised in his speech to use his power to race the minimum wage for federal contract workers. on wednesday he did that, signing an order to raise the member mum wage for businesses that do business with the government from $7.55 to $10.70 an hour. he'll initially raise it temporarily to certain ones since it applies to new federal contracts. for americans to get a pay raise, congress would have to act and pass legislation. and on thursday, house democrats announced their plan to fo...

Snowed in today. thanks to the giant winter wallop that closed down schools and roads and government. and everything else. vice president biden today was unable to travel from washington to the meeting that he had been planning to attend in cambridge, maryland. that's where house democrats started their annual retreat yesterday. that's where they plot strategy and talk policy and get to spend time with each other outside of capitol hill. but even though vice president biden could not get to them, the house democrats meeting went ahead today, anyway, and from their retreat many the middle of th...

Vice president joe biden was snowed in today. thanks to the giant winter wallop that closed down schools and roads and government. and everything else. vice president biden today was unable to travel from washington to the meeting that he had been planning to attend in cambridge, maryland. that's where house democrats started their annual retreat yesterday. that's where they plot strategy and talk policy and get to spend time with each other outside of capitol hill. but even though vice president biden could not get to them, the house democrats meeting went ahead today, anyway, and from their ...

A majority of independents like the idea, a majority of republicans like the idea. everybody likes the idea of raising the minimum wage except elected republicans. they will not allow it to come up for a vote. democrats aren't no control of the house so they can't control what comes up for a vote. the speaker has absolute power. except for this one weird tactic xavier becerra talked about today. the discharge position is weird enough and rare enough as a tactic that some people think it is a myth, but i know it is true because i have seen "legally blond 2." >> i just don't think i'm cut out fo...

Circulating in democratic circles to also try a discharge petition on immigration reform. remember, immigration reform already passed the senate last summer. in the house, it would likely get every single democratic vote and potentially even more than the 17 republicans who would be needed to pass it. if it did come up for a vote. but, again, like with bruiser's bill and reese witherspoon, john boehner will not put it up for a vote. a discharge position on immigration, a discharge position on the minimum wage. i don't know why democrats floated both of these ideas in the same day today or if i...