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Congressional Update. It was another busy week on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate was, of course, preoccupied with the historic second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. In the U.S. House of Representatives, meanwhile, committees began working on their respective pieces of the reconciliation budget relief package. The House Committee on Education and Labor advanced its portion of the package, which includes a phased-in increase of the minimum wage to $15 per hour (and elimination of the tip credit) but does not include an extension and expansion of the paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Of course, there are still many hoops and hurdles to jump through and surmount before any of this becomes final.