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The advice of the parliamentarian, a nonpartisan advisor who serves at the whim of the party controlling the Senate, is non-binding.
House progressives and
civil rights activists, in fact, pushed Vice President Kamala Harris to reject MacDonough’s advice.
Instead, Senate Democrats
removed the wage measure from the legislation. On Friday, Sanders tried to add it back with an amendment. The amendment, which needed 60 votes to advance, was never going to move forward, since opposition from all 50 Senate Republicans was all but guaranteed.
But Sanders still wanted to
put Senators on record on their position on the $15 minimum wage — and now we know exactly where all of them stand.
Eight Democrats are now on record opposing a living wage, but enough remained to suggest the wage increase could have survived if Biden wanted to push it through.
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