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Arlen Specter: “I urge my colleagues to vote in favor--I believe there is going to be a motion to table--I urge my colleagues to vote in…”

On the recordDecember 1, 1997
I urge my colleagues to vote in favor--I believe there is going to be a motion to table--I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the motion to table the Kennedy amendment which will increase the minimum wage by 19 percent.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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congress.gov
Dec 1, 1997

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