Word: bushing
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Congressional Democrats and their labor allies had repeatedly been thwarted in their attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
...Bush is expected to sign the bill next week...
...Senate vote came eight days after President Bush and congressional Democrats agreed on the plan to boost the minimum wage by 45 cents next April 1 and another 45 cents a year later...
...Bush's signature will not only trigger the first increase in the minimum wage in nearly a decade but also will end a bitter stalemate between congressional Democrats and successive Republican administrations over the politically charged issue...
Kennedy promised to return to the issue and seek another increase as the 1992 presidential election nears. Democrats may try to use the issue against Bush then, but yesterday they had praise for the president...