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Don Nickles: “We voted on this amendment in November. It didn't pass. What we did pass on November 9 was the Domenici amendment. It…”

On the recordApril 7, 2000
We voted on this amendment in November. It didn't pass. What we did pass on November 9 was the Domenici amendment. It passed 54-44. It was an amendment that would increase the minimum wage not over 13 months, as proposed by Senator Kennedy, but over 28 months. In addition, we provided for some small business tax relief, those businesses that would be negatively impacted by a big increase in the minimum wage. We did that. That passed. I will be sending a second-degree amendment to the desk that would reiterate our support for that. I hope our colleagues will join us in a request to move that amendment, which was attached to bankruptcy, to the House-passed minimum wage so we can go to conference and pass a minimum wage package with tax relief.
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Discussing the minimum wage amendment and related tax relief for small businesses.

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