Senate - January 29, 2007

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Daily Summary
Senate - January 29, 2007 - week 5
110th - United States Congress

Senate Majority Leader	Harry Reid
Minority Leader	Mitch McConnell
Previous	Friday - January 26, 2007
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This is the Daily Summary of the actions in United States Senate in the 110th United States Congress for January 29, 2007 during week 5 of the 1st term of this Congress. For a summary of the actions in the House click here, and for Congress as a whole on this date, click here.

1 Senate Daily Summary
- 1.1 On the Floor
- 1.2 In the Committees
2 Resources

Senate Daily Summary

The session began with Harry Reid (Majority Leader) speaking about the Senate's schedule for the day, noting that most of the legislative session would be tied up on 29 pending amendments to the minimum wage bill, most offered up by the Republicans that are not germaine to the bill itself. He then went on to not that in the ten years since the last time the minmum wage had been increased, the cost of food went up 23%, health care costs 45%, the cost of housing about 30%, the cost of gas 135% and that Congress managed to give themselves $30,000 per year raises, while the minimum wage remained flat. He hoped that by the next day they could finally have cloture on the bill.

Mr. Reid then spoke about the other issue that hopefully they could have meaningful debate on was the issue of Iraq and the President's proposed troop escalation.

On the Floor

Schedule
- Harry Reid (Majority Leader) on the days schedule
  - and on passage of the Minimum Wage Bill
  - and on the issue of Iraq
- Mitch McConnell (Minority Leader) speaks on Republican Cooperation on the above issues
Morning Business
Legislative Session
- Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007
- Iraq

In the Committees

There were no Senate committee meetings held on this day.

Resources

References

External Links

The United States Senate - Offical Gov. Site
Recent bills introduced in Congress - THOMAS

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