***** PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS (1-800-459-1887) - MIN. WAGE! Send a message, too. *****

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Tue Jan-23-07 12:34 PM
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*** We need 60 votes to end debate and bring S 2 to a vote tomorrow. ***

Please call your Senators (even if, and especially if, s/he is a repub); tell them to vote 'YES' on S 2 - the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 !

*** The toll-free number is 1-800-459-1887 ***

*** Please also send a message to your Senators @ http://go.sojo.net/campaign/make_work_work ***

From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org/)...

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS - MIN. WAGE!

A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

"Vote for a clean minimum wage increase now!"

every

On Wednesday, the Senate will vote on whether to end debate and bring up a simple, straightforward vote on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour by 2009. It will take 60 votes to end debate. That's a tall order - but if thousands of constituents call, the Senate might do just what the House did with a strong bipartisan vote - support increasing the minimum wage without larding up with bill with billions on tax breaks, eroding labor standards, and/or bad ideas like the line item veto.

Call both your Senators now!

Step 1: Call 1-800-459-1887, toll-free, to be connected to the U.S. Capitol Switchboard.

Step 2: Ask to be connected to your Senator's office. (If you're not sure of his or her name, click here: http://www.senate.gov/ and find your Senators by state at the upper right.)

Step 3: Tell the staffer who answers the phone:

The American Friends Service Committee (www.afsc.org/economic-justice/), the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign (www.letjusticeroll.org), and the Coalition on Human Needs (www.chn.org) urge all in their networks to call Congress and to forward this alert. The toll-free number is provided by AFSC, a Quaker organization which welcomes groups to use the number to support work for fair wages and a moral budget and without linking it to language or websites supporting partisan purposes.

Why your call is needed: Senators are under lots of pressure to add costly, unnecessary, and/or downright dangerous provisions to the minimum wage. In some cases, calls from constituents may be enough to dissuade Senators from voting for bad amendments. And if your Senator(s) are strong votes for a clean minimum wage, they need to hear that the people of their state support them.

We know how busy you are - but standing up for struggling working people is worth your time.

Thanks!

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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And an excerpt from a Sojourners (http://www.sojo.net) email...

Tell the Senate to Keep the House's Clean Minimum Wage Bill!

Call Your Senators Today, January 23 - Tell Them to Keep the House's Clean Minimum Wage Bill!

Last Friday, we asked you to send letters to your senators urging them to support a clean minimum wage bill. Thousands of you listened and took action � THANK YOU!

Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying to honor your request. In a move to short-circuit the expected addition of numerous amendments and tax breaks to the House's clean bill, he is asking the Senate to vote this Wednesday, January 24, on the House of Representatives' clean minimum wage increase before any possible amendments can be added.

On the heels of your e-mails, we now ask that you keep the pressure on by calling your senators, toll-free, at 1-800-459-1887*.

Text of S 2 from THOMAS...

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)

S 2 PCS

Calendar No. 2

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 2
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 4, 2007
Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. BIDEN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. WEBB, Mr. KERRY, Mr. REED, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. HARKIN, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. KOHL, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. BAYH, Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr. SPECTER, Mr. DODD, and Mr. DORGAN) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

January 8, 2007
Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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A BILL
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007'.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.

(a) In General- Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:

`(1) except as otherwise provided in this section, not less than--

`(A) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date of enactment of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007;

`(B) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and

`(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day;'.

(b) Effective Date- The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY OF MINIMUM WAGE TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

(a) In General- Section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206) shall apply to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

(b) Transition- Notwithstanding subsection (a), the minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) shall be--

(1) $3.55 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date of enactment of this Act; and

(2) increased by $0.50 an hour (or such lesser amount as may be necessary to equal the minimum wage under section 6(a)(1) of such Act), beginning 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act and every 6 months thereafter until the minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under this subsection is equal to the minimum wage set forth in such section.
Calendar No. 2

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 2

A BILL
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.

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January 8, 2007

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

Please call 1-800-459-1887! And please send this message: http://go.sojo.net/campaign/make_work_work

Thank you,
Sapphire Blue
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