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Democrats seize on Collins’s mixed voting record on minimum wage
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| News Date | Thursday, February 1, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) last week voted in favor of a procedural motion to increase the nation’s minimum wage, but nearly two years ago, the centrist lawmaker voted against two measures that would have done just that.
Democrats are targeting Collins, who is up for reelection in 2008, and part of their strategy will be highlighting her mixed record on the minimum wage. Throughout the 2006 election cycle, Democrats scored political points by pointing out that the Republican-led Congress had not lifted the minimum wage since the Clinton administration.
On March 7, 2005, Collins was one of only 16 senators to vote no on competing wage amendments offered by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rick Santorum (R-Pa.).
Kennedy’s measure would have raised the minimum wage $2.10, and enjoyed bipartisan support with Republican Sens. Pete Domenici (N.M.), Norm Coleman (Minn.), the recently defeated Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) and Mike DeWine (Ohio). The amendment was defeated 46-49, falling 14 votes short of the 60 needed.
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