U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic bill to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, demanding it first include small-business tax relief.

They fillibustered poor people??? The fact that this happened and isn't being screamed from the rooftops by the Democrats shows just how screwed up things are on BOTH sides of the fence. The Republicans should be embarassed and appalled that the current joke of minimum wage is what it is (if Jesus has a political issue, it's poverty) and the Democrats should be raking them over the coals for it.

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