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Who Is The Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against A Minimum Wage Increase? – Nation & World News


Who Is The Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against A Minimum Wage Increase?
By Brakkton Booker 
February 26, 2021
The Senate parliamentarian, a critical but often low-profile arbiter of the chamber’s procedural actions, is the subject of frustration from some liberals after a crucial blow to Democrats’ agenda late Thursday.
Elizabeth MacDonough is the unelected, nonpartisan interpreter of chamber rules, commonly referred to as the Senate referee. She nixed a Democratic push to add a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage increase to President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, dubbed the American Rescue Plan.
The reason?
She said it did not meet the strict requirements of reconciliation, a fast-track process that allows the majority party to pass big-ticket legislation with a simple 51-vote majority. ....

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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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