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...chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Kennedy is expected to push for an increase in the minimum wage during this Congress. In the House, New York Democrat Mario Biaggi has submitted a bill to raise the current rate to $5.05 an hour over a five-year period and index it after 1991 to half of average hourly earnings. The present minimum is less than 38% of average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising the $3.35 Minimum | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...plastic credit. Three bills introduced this year would set a ceiling on charges. The measures, which are likely to be taken up in early 1986, would peg card rates to the interest on other kinds of short-term loans. One of the bills, sponsored by Democratic Representative Mario Biaggi of New York, would limit card interest to no more than 5% above the cost of 90-day commercial paper, a type of corporate IOU that now yields about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Banker | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Over the past three years, Masselli was the target of FBI agents, wiretappers, stakeouts, prosecutors and federal grand juries. These investigations produced reports of an alleged $5,000 payoff to New York City Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi. The money was said to have come from a paving contractor who was seeking dumping privileges at a city landfill. Biaggi denied any such deal, saying: "It didn't happen." Similarly, Masselli is alleged to have sought the help of Carmine De Sapio, 73, a former New York City Democratic leader, in leasing a dump site from the New York State Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Troubles | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...their pet projects, the President spent hours on the phone. "What can I do to help you make up your mind?" he would ask the reluctant Democratic dragoons. Angry about windfall oil taxes? Worried about Cuban refugees? Just tell me what you want. Reagan won New York Congressman Mario Biaggi's backing when he promised to support legislation that would preserve minimum Social Security benefits for the truly "needy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracking the Great Persuader | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...Congressman Mario Biaggi and his Irish caucus: I know that [New York Democrat] Biaggi and the people associated with him have publicly declared their support for the Provisional I.R.A. Any group that has close associations with NorAid [Irish Northern Aid Committee, the U.S. organization suspected of funneling funds to the I.R.A.] is making a peaceful solution in Ireland more difficult. People who give any support-moral or real-to the Provisional I.R.A. are making the situation worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: A New Effort for the North | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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