speaker of the house

The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently, but this was back in 2007, when Democrats retook the House in the midst of President George W. Bush’s disastrous second term. The original bill to raise the minimum wage, from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour, was part of HR 2, which you may notice is the second bill the House took up that Congress. It would eventually run through both houses...

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