CHEERS AND JEERS Cheers to: Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Richard Hanna (R-NY) for their bipartisan introduction of the Strong Start for America’s Children Act. Rep. Hanna held up a photo of his own pre-school age children and said, “I am the first Republican to support this bill, but I will not be the last.” Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) for her take on a final budget agreement for fiscal 2014: [Democrats] can find responsible savings across the federal budget to get to a fair deal. Compromise, however, runs both ways. While we scour programs to identify savings, Republicans have to work with us to scour the bloated tax code and close loopholes used by the wealthiest Americans and corporations …” Senator Sherrod Brown for pushing for action on the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 (S. 460/H.R. 1010), which would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three steps and provide the first raise for tipped workers in 20 years: “It’s so much the right thing to do. There are so many people living on the minimum wage and … [t]he tipped wage has been stuck at $2.19 since 1990.” Senators Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for introducing the Senate resolution honoring American Education Week, and Representatives Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Mark Takano (D-CA) for introducing the House resolution honoring American Education Week with these original cosponsors: Representatives Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Brad Schneider (D-IL), Peter King (R-NY), Tim Walz (D-MN), Jon Runyan (R-NJ), Jared Polis (D-CO), Chris Gibson (R-NY), John Lewis (D-GA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pat Meehan (R-PA), Patrick Murphy (D-FL), Greg Walden (R-OR), Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Jim McGovern (D-MA). Jeers to: Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) for intransigence and ignoring the human suffering caused by the sequester at the second public meeting of the budget conference committee: “Washington has no right to ask taxpayers for a single additional dollar … This committee has an opportunity to restore the people’s trust in Congress by identifying ways to make government leaner, less wasteful, and more accountable. Would that not be a moral good – indeed, a moral imperative?” Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for declaring that he will not negotiate over the Senate’s immigration reform bill: “Frankly, I’ll make clear, we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.”
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 04:15:41 +0000
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