Tying Congressional Pay Raises to Minimum Wage Increases

I know everyone these days loves to hate Senator Clinton. Personally I like a woman who does well in politics and though I think she is triangulating the wrong way, I would rather have her in there than most others. If nothing else, the way she gets Freepers all in a spitting tizzy is worth the price of admission.

Mostly I feel she is an adequate Senator. Not a leader, but an adequate legislator who votes the right way in the vast majority of cases. But sometimes I actually think she actually has some real ideas. Or at least knows a good idea when it is tossed to her. This one comes from Andy Stern, President of SEIU, and from SlicedBread.com:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton just introduced a bill that would link Congressional pay increases to increases in the federal minimum wage. It would require that the federal minimum wage be increased by the same percentage amount as Congressional salaries every year.

What gave the Senator this idea? You guessed it: SinceSlicedBread.com. We told Senator Clinton how important the minimum wage is to SinceSlicedBread community members, and she decided to take action, modeling her bill on an idea from three of you.

Senator Clinton's bill will immediately raise minimum wage to more than $7 an hour, and provide automatic raises, just as Congress receives. Ask your senators to co-sponsor the bill.

Raising the minimum wage and linking it to Congressional pay hikes? Not a bad idea. Now if only we could force CEOs to link their pay hikes to pay hikes of workers.

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