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House hikes minimum wage, protects private property, Senate reauthorizes federal aviation administration
Human Events, Mar 31, 2000
On March 9, the House passed the Minimum Wage Increase Act (see House rollcall at immediate left) which raises the federally man dated minimum wage over a period of two years rather than the three years the Republican leadership had wanted. Worried that by stopping the hike they would hand Democrats an election-year issue, Republicans agreed to allow an amendment by maverick Rep. James Traficant (D.-Ohio) that shortened the increase phase-in period by a year. Earlier, the House had rejected a bid by conservatives to derail the bill with a point of order (see House rollcall at far left).
Finally, the House passed a bill enabling landowners more easily to litigate in federal court any constitutional claims they might have against various levels of goveminent in suits involving property rights (see House rollcall at right). Under the bill, supporters said, the process a property owner must go through to reach federal court would be streamlined, which would be of great assistance to people who are simply overwhelmed by the current series of hurdles.
The Senate on March 8 passed the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization (see Senate rollcall below). Several of the measure's provisions led to sharp battles, including the lifting of restrictions on flights into several crowded airports and the partitioning of revenue from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund over the next three years into projects solely related to aviation.
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