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Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill find themselves outflanked by the Democrats on popular issues like raising the minimum wage. So fractious and demoralized last year, the Democrats perform now like a synchronized swim team, setting the legislative agenda despite their minority status. Minimum-wage talking points are lofted among them like balloons. The budget passed last week provided billions of dollars for programs that Republicans had sworn to kill. In April, when Dole shelved the immigration bill after Democrats tried to attach riders on both the minimum wage and Social Security, he reminded the opposition sourly, "We have the majority...
Dick Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...
...Earlier this year, Newt Gingrich put Armey in day-to-day charge of legislation, in part because the Speaker's high negative ratings were dragging down House Republicans as well as their party. But as Armey proved last week, when he rallied conservative Republicans behind his opposition to the minimum wage, the Texan sees more virtue in taking a stand than in compromising. The leader's job normally goes to someone with patience, flexible principles and an instinct for horse trading. In other words, it's not an obvious assignment for Armey, an ideological purist with a reputation for razor...
Before his stand on the minimum wage, some conservatives were grousing that Armey was selling out the revolution by deferring to Dole. But whether his critics are conservatives or moderates, Armey never doubts himself. "I don't do stress," he tells voters. Well, he may not feel it, but he knows how to give it to his party...
Opponents, both political and academic, have criticized the Card-Krueger study's methodology. But the Administration knows well that working-class voters are behind a raise: 10 states have already lifted their minimum wage above the national mandate, and 30 cities are considering "living wage" increases...