The last story in this series: Day 7 - Mallory
On Day 7, Mallory shares her story of dreaming of a better future of education and independence, but facing no opportunities on a minimum wage paycheck.
This linked page contains all links for the prior six chapters.
This is my last plea for your involvement prior to election day.
Tell Congress: It’s Time for a REAL Vote to Raise the Minimum Wage. Send a letter to tell your U.S. representative and senators that when they get back to work after the election, they must put a clean vote to raise the minimum wage at the top of their agenda.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the AFL-CIO are partners in a grassroots movement to do what the U.S. Congress refused to do. We urge voters in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio to raise the minimum wage by voting “Yes” on November 7.
For more information, visit:
ACORN
AFL-CIO
ROSEANNE BARR
Please support this effort.
I’ve recently received the mailing from the Kuhl Campaign, “Eric Massa must think money grows on trees”. As with any negative ad I read or hear, my natural instinct is to (first cringe, because I feel that what I’m reading is distorted) look beyond the rhetoric and try to find the truth. So, lets take a look.
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Well, knock me over with a feather.
This is what happens when you are just surfing the net and post from a press release without actually looking into the details of the subject matter. My own post from 9/20/06, “Kuhl Announcements on School Safety and Chemung County”, contained a huge issue that I had inadvertantly overlooked. And, dear readers, I sincerely apologize for my lack of oversite. It’s not going to happen again if I can help it. (All bolding emphasis throughout this post are mine.)
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 19 - U.S. Rep. John R. “Randy” Kuhl, Jr. (R-Hammondsport), a member of the House Education and The Workforce Committee, today managed floor debate in favor of H.R. 5295, the Student and Teacher Safety Act. Rep. Kuhl and two other Members of Congress are coauthors of the bill, which passed the House today.
It wasn’t until today that I learned just what H.R. 5295 is all about.
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In an unexpected move earlier today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cancelled the proceeding regarding John Bolton’s nomination to continue as the US Ambassador to the UN.
Senate panel scrubs vote on Bolton as U.N. envoy
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, did not explain why the vote on whether to send Bolton’s nomination to the full Senate was removed from the day’s agenda and did not say if or when it would be taken up again.
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Randy Kuhl was one of two sponsors for a provision relating to hedge funds and pension plans for the recently passed HR 5970.
Sell-out: Why hedge funds will destroy the world
Hedge funds are private investment funds, primarily organised as limited partnerships - in essence, betting syndicates for the very rich.
If hedge funds were a country, it would be the eighth-biggest on the planet. They can sink whole economies, and have the potential to crash the entire global financial system. Yet they are beyond regulation. We should be very afraid.
…the hedge-fund industry - lords of havoc who, a consensus is building, have the potential to be responsible for the next great crash. … The key features of these funds are that they trade in eye-watering risk and they are barely regulated. The two are related. Because they answer to nobody but themselves, hedge funds have side-stepped regulation and can do as they like.
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At 1:41 am, July 29, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5970:
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes
While there are many other provisions/sections to this bill, several notable ones stand out. This first post on the topic discuss the Minimum Wage Hike implications and the Estate Tax provisions.
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Yesterday, on CNN’s “Late Edition” program, Senator Charles Schumer indicated that John Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the UN will unlikely face a filibuster by the Senate. Although Schumer disapproved of the nomination last year, he is now considering approving the nomination.
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The minimum wage rate hike issue has become a hot campaign topic not only across the nation, but also on our local level.
From Randy Kuhl’s July 25 press release:
“Massa attacked Kuhl for what he claimed was Kuhl’s vote against an increase in the federal minimum wage. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out similar news releases attacking other Republicans around the country, including Rep. James Walsh (R-Onondaga). Both Kuhl and Walsh have long supported an increase in the minimum wage. Both, in fact, are co-sponsors of a bill to do exactly that. So, what’s going on here? Are Kuhl and Walsh talking one way and voting another? Nope. In fact, the vote that the Democrats are talking about actually had very little, if anything, to do with the minimum wage.” (Canandaigua Messenger 7/21/06)
Eric Massa counters this argument:
Massa repeated his charge today that Kuhl plays politics with his vote on the minimum wage, and that while he appears to support the increase, he has also worked to block votes on the increase procedurally. “Randy Kuhl says, ‘I’m in favor of increasing the minimum wage – but let’s not vote on it.’ If that’s not playing politics, I don’t know what is.”
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The following list contains information related to Mr. Kuhl’s House Votes for the month of July, 2006.
7/20/06 Vote 392; H R 5684: Passed, 221-205, with 7 not voting; Kuhl votes YES
To Implement the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement
7/19/06 Vote 388; H R 810: Failed, 235-193, with 5 not voting; Kuhl Votes NO
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act
7/18/06 Vote 378; H J RES 88: Failed, 236-187, with 1 voting Present and 9 not voting; Kuhl votes YES
Proposing An Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relating to Marriage
7/13/06 Vote 374; H R 9: Passed, 390-33, with 9 not voting; Kuhl votes YES
Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act
For complete information on Representative Kuhl’s House votes held this month, click on his votes database link located under the Blogroll category at the right of this screen.
The following list contains information related to Senate Votes for the month of July, 2006. Senators Clinton and Schumer voted YES on the following items:
7/20/06 Vote 212; H R 9: Passed, 98-0, with 2 not voting.
Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006
7/18/06 Vote 206; H R 810: Passed, 63-37.
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005
7/13/06 Vote 197; Rejected, 38-62
On the Motion: Motion to Waive CBA Re: Dodd Amdt. No. 4641; To fund urgent priorities for our Nation’s firefighters, law enforcement personnel, emergency medical personnel, and all Americans by reducing the tax breaks for individuals with annual incomes in excess of $1,000,000.
7/11/06 Vote 193; H R 5441: Rejected, 32-66, with 2 not voting.
Clinton Amdt No. 4563; To establish the Federal Emergency Management Agency as an independent agency, and for other purposes.
7/11/06 Vote 191; H R 5441: Agreed to, 68-32
Vitter Amdt. No. 4548, As Modified; To prohibit the United States Customs and Border Protection from preventing an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug from importing an FDA-approved prescription drug.
For complete information on Senators Clinton and Schumer’s Senate votes held this month, click on their votes database link located under the Blogroll category at the right of this screen.
