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Democrats Trying To Force Vote on Minimum Wage [View all]
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-trying-force-vote-minimum-wage-n39646House Democrats launched a discharge petition on Tuesday meant to force a vote on legislation to increase the minimum wage and also highlight Republican opposition to the measure.
The rarely successful parliamentary move would need 218 signatures to force a vote to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. The petition currently has 155 signatures, all of which are Democrats.
The effort, which was officially kicked off at a rally in the Capitol this afternoon, is expected to fail.
Since 1967, only 12 measures have obtained the necessary signatures using a discharge petition to force action on the House floor. In many cases, even if members of the majority party support a measure, they will not buck their own leadership and sign onto a petition filed by the minority.
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