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March 5, 2021
New Hampshire’s two senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, want to raise the federal minimum wage.
They just don’t want to do it as part of the massive COVID-19 relief bill working its way through Congress.
The two New Hampshire Democrats were among the 58 senators who voted on Friday to uphold a procedural objection to a proposed amendment to the relief bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders that would have incrementally raised the federal minimum wage which has idled at $7.25 an hour since 2009 to $15 an hour by 2025.
Shaheen and Hassan were joined by fellow Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Jon Tester, as well as independent Maine Sen. Angus King and all 50 Republican senators in opposition to the amendment.
New Hampshire senator utters open mic slur, no censure
New Hampshire senator utters open mic slur, no censure
February 16, 20219:22 am
I’d overlooked this brief in the Democrat-Gazette, which called for a bit more information given that Arkansas is fresh off the incident in which the Arkansas Senate censured state
Sen. Stephanie Flowers for referring to
Sen. Trent Garner as a
dumbass as she participated remotely in a session of the Senate. She was barred from committee participation for three days as punishment.
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So what happened in Live Free or Die New Hampshire? Here’s an account:
The racist, sexist and anti-Semitic rhetoric and social media postings by a few Republican lawmakers is getting more attention after a male state senator was caught Wednesday on Zoom calling a woman senator a disparaging name during a remote committee meeting.
A New Hampshire state senator, apparently unaware that he was not on mute during a remote hearing over Zoom, was heard referring to a female colleague as a “bitch” on Wednesday.
“My daughter is currently hospitalized and her doctor is on the phone,” said Sen. Sharon Carson, who was chairing a Zoom meeting of the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee. That led a colleague to call her a "b -h."