Sen Elizabeth Warren: It is time to get rid of the filibuster to raise the minimum wage to $15

[iluvtennis]

@SenWarren

Democrats should not be held hostage by Mitch McConnell to help struggling families. It is time to get rid of the filibuster to raise the minimum wage to $15 and pass the other bold policies that Americans voted for us to deliver.

Link to tweet

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I stand with Liz.

[CincyDem]

1. Manchin won't agree to either...so that's that. n/t

[Zipgun]

2. Time to stop compromising at the very start, $27. Make them fight it down to $15, not start at $15

Manchin wants a barely better poverty wage of $10. Maybe some one should explain to him that his daughter can't profit off of gouging the prices of medication when the people who need them have no money to buy the meds.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. I once had to pay $600.00 for a stupid EpiPen that cost

about ten bucks to manufacture. I think the last one was a little over half that.

[still_one]

3. and how would Senator think that will happen without Mancin?

[quakerboy]

10. Make him and all of them put their votes down in history.

Then make sure his voters know whats up. then do it again.

[orangecrush]

4. Bring back the middle class

Lots of laws to protect organizing labor.

[Poiuyt]

9. Bringing back the middle class is the most important thing Washington can do.

Well, that and the covid thing.

[SergeStorms]

11. $15 an hour will not bring back...

the middle class. $15 an hour is what's needed to stay above the poverty line for a family of four. Much more is needed to bring back the middle class. Hell, we can't even get 50 Senators to keep people out of poverty.

[tirebiter]

5. I''l gladly give Warren credit

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When she pulls Sinema from the left and Manchin from the right to the middle

[Celerity]

12. Sinema from the left? She is conservative as Manchin

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/




Lowest (for comparison)








Lowest (for comparison, and I did not list ones who only were in only for a month or so at the end of Trump, as that is a useless measure)

[tirebiter]

13. She got her political cred as a Green

[Celerity]

14. yes, but she is far removed from those days, she slid over into centre to centre right territory

[JonLP24]

15. Ever since she was elected to the US Congress

She has voted like a conservative Democrat. I voted for her in her first primary for the House of Representatives and I voted for her over the Bill Clinton & Obama endorsed candidate -- Andrei Cherny because I thought she would be more liberal but I was wrong.

She was more liberal in the Arizona State House but shifted her policies for a Congressional run.

She used to be my Congressional Rep. Russell Pearce also used to be my State Senator who was the sponsor of SB1070.

Wiki

The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and thus often referred to simply as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at the time of passage in 2010 was the broadest and strictest anti–illegal immigration measure passed in the United States.[2] It has received international attention and has spurred considerable controversy.[3][4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070

"Actually, I love Russell," she said just in time for Valentine's Day. "We get along very well, not always on policy matters, but on personal matters we do."

Most Dems love to hate Pearce, but Sinema just loves him. It's not the sort of legislative chumminess I'd like to hear from the mouth of the state Senate's most liberal member. I expect she'll be reminded of this declaration over and over by her progressive pals, particularly if she decides to seek higher office.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/russell-pearce-for-congress-kyrsten-sinema-hearts-russell-6500891

[PatrickforB]

7. Yep.

Yes on both.