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Donkees

(31,392 posts) Sat Feb 6, 2021, 01:05 PM Feb 2021

📺 Sunday Feb 7 - LIVE: @BernieSanders joins @jaketapper on #CNNSOTU.

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📺 Sunday Feb 7 - LIVE: @BernieSanders joins @jaketapper on #CNNSOTU. (Original Post) Donkees Feb 2021 OP

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Says he's got "room full of lawyers" who plan to argue to Senate parliamentarian to get minimum wage Donkees Feb 2021 #3

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Donkees

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Sat Feb 6, 2021, 06:17 PM

Feb 2021

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 09:25 AM

Feb 2021

Donkees

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3. Says he's got "room full of lawyers" who plan to argue to Senate parliamentarian to get minimum wage

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 10:49 AM

Feb 2021

Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders on Biden saying Senate rules won’t allow minimum wage hike. “I hope he is” wrong, he says on @CNNSotu to @jaketapper. Says he’s got “room full of lawyers” who plan to argue to Senate parliamentarian to get minimum wage hike in reconciliation

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Donkees

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Sun Feb 7, 2021, 11:10 AM

Feb 2021

"You cannot make it in any state in this country on $9 or $10 an hour. We've got to raise that minimum wage to $15 an hour"

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"As chairman of the budget committee, we have a room full of lawyers working as hard as we can to make the case to the parliamentarian, that in fact, raising the minimum wage will have significant budget implications, and in fact, should be consistent with reconciliation rules."

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