> Show your support for a clean Fair Minimum Wage Act:

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Sen. Ted Kennedy wrote:

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> Dear xxx,
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> I need your help.
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> For ten years, the Republican leadership has refused to let us raise the minimum wage. Even now, the bill will barely lift 13 million working Americans out of poverty -- but it's progress.
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> Now the Senate has invoked cloture, which means that our opponents in the Senate have 30 hours to hammer away at the bill before we can vote on it.
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> Armed with scores of amendments, Republicans have proposed one poison pill after another to weaken and obstruct what should be a simple raise.
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> What are these amendments? Republicans have proposed $240 billion in tax breaks for corporations, $36 billion in tax breaks for small businesses, and many, many more -- most of which have nothing to do with giving hard-working Americans a well-earned and long-delayed raise.
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> We have to ask hard questions of Republicans in the Senate: What is your price for giving hard-working men and women the raise they deserve? After lavishing billions on the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations, can't we give these workers $2.10 more an hour?
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> When does the greed stop?
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> That’s the question. That’s the issue. Make no mistake. They have piles of amendments -- we have none.
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> It is absolutely essential that all who care about this clear issue of conscience step up and make their voices heard now.
> Show your support for a clean Fair Minimum Wage Act:
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> http://www.tedkennedy.com/raisethewage
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> What is it about the minimum wage that drives Republicans crazy?
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> Don't let them disguise their disdain for their fellow Americans by hiding it behind a pile of hostile amendments.
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> In the past week of debate each Senator has made $3,800 -- more than a third of what a minimum wage worker makes in a year! What is it about these hard-working men and women that they find so offensive? Why would they poison legislation on something as basic as the minimum wage?
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> It's time for some answers.
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> Sincerely,
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> Senator Edward M. Kennedy