What will happen to the minimum wage bill in the Senate?

[BluegrassDem]

The Repugs are surely to filibuster. Does anyone think we can get 9 of them to flip and support a clean bill?

I can imagine some of the more moderate ones like Collins and Snowe will do it, but I don't know if we can break a filibuster.

[babylonsister]

1. I think it's already been passed. nt

[Daylin Byak]

4. No it passed in the House

It will now go to the Senate, which today debated the lobbying/ethics bill. I think the Democrats want to add in the Senate version a provision that they'll give taxbreaks to small businesses.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The Puggies can either pass it now

or be looking for lobbyist jobs in a Democratic town in 2009.

[Hosnon]

3. I predict it will pass and Bush will sign it.

They won't waste a filibuster bananza on the Minimum Wage. And all 51 of our guys will probably vote for it.

Bush can't afford to veto things right now...he is barely above water politically due to Iraq.

[Daylin Byak]

5. Yeah the far RW Repukes will protest it in the Senate

But it still will pass in the Senate cause it has bi-partisan support from all the Democrats and the Moderate Republicans like John Warner and Arlen Specter will be voting for it.

It's a done deal.

[expatriot]

6. McCain's voted NO on every minimum wage increase in his career... I wonder how he will vote...

If he votes no... his anti-working person ideology will be written in stone... if he votes for it, it will be hard for even the media to ignore his FLIP FLOPPING.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

7. This will be a major win for the Democrat Party by immediately helping the working class.