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phantom power

(25,966 posts) Wed Jan 21, 2015, 10:40 AM Jan 2015

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"“To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this..."

This is how you use the bully pulpit.

“To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.”
-- President Obama, SOTU, January 20, 2015

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"“To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this..." (Original Post) phantom power Jan 2015 OP

The republican response to that was to sit on their hands onecaliberal Jan 2015 #1

onecaliberal

(32,861 posts)

1. The republican response to that was to sit on their hands

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Wed Jan 21, 2015, 10:49 AM

Jan 2015

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