Jon Kyl: “This relates to an amendment that will be, I believe, the last one we vote on in this next tranche that simply reinserts…”

“This relates to an amendment that will be, I believe, the last one we vote on in this next tranche that simply reinserts into the code the very minimum wage tax provisions the Senate voted on and approved. It was--if not unanimous, it was a very strong vote in favor of those provisions. Recall that when the minimum wage bill was dealt with in the House, they originally had a bill, but they ended up putting it in the Iraq supplemental appropriation because that was a must-pass bill. So the minimum wage provisions were attached to that bill, and they passed but without all of the Senate-passed tax provisions. The bill we are literally debating tonight came from the House of Representatives and is that tax bill. Now, we have amended it to include the SCHIP provisions, but what we need to do is to use that House shell bill for its original purpose, also, and that is to add back the exact provisions we passed in this body to help small businesses offset the costs of the minimum wage requirements we imposed upon them.”