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Vermont Business Magazine In a press conference today, incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) joined incoming Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) to announce the introduction of legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025.
The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 in five steps over the next four years. Beginning in 2026, the federal minimum wage would be indexed to median wage growth. According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
By Michael W. Chapman | January 22, 2021 | 12:55pm EST
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), left, and Josh Hawley (Mo.). (Getty Images)
(CNS News) Seven liberal Democrats in the U.S. Senate have called for a Senate Ethics Committee investigation of conservative Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), alleging that their challenge to some of the state electoral votes in the presidential election and their stated concerns about election integrity may have helped fuel the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
They also want to know whether Cruz and Hawley coordinated in any way with the Save America rally on Jan. 6, or took any action that encouraged the insurrectionists’ actions, and whether the insurrectionists cited Senators Hawley or Cruz as part of their rationale for storming the Capitol.