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Some Democrats want to fire the Senate parliamentarian who scuttled $15 minimum-wage plans. It's been done once before.


Some Democrats want to fire the Senate parliamentarian who scuttled $15 minimum-wage plans. It’s been done once before.
By Katie Shepherd Washington Post,Updated February 26, 2021, 4:41 p.m.
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Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, second from left, works beside former vice president Mike Pence during the certification of Electoral College ballots in the presidential election, in the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
As Democrats sought to use budget reconciliation to keep Republicans from filibustering a minimum-wage increase in the Senate, the decision on whether to allow the measure to be fast-tracked inside a proposed coronavirus relief package fell to one woman: the unelected and nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough. ....

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