official MSM coverage of House Estate Tax/Minimum wage bill passage

[LSK]

CNN:

Minimum wage increase passes House
Sen. Reid decries move as attempt to 'blackmail' working class

Saturday, July 29, 2006; Posted: 2:12 a.m. EDT (06:12 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House of Representatives early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

Combining the two issues provoked protests from Democrats and was sure to cause problems in the Senate, where the minimum wage initiative was likely to die at the hands of Democrats opposed to the costly estate tax cuts.

The Senate is expected to take up the legislation next week.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/28/minimumwage.ap/index.html

Yahoo (AP):

House approves minimum wage increase

WASHINGTON - Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

(same AP story as CNN)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_go_co/minimum_wage;

Yahoo (Rueters):

House vote raises minimum wage

By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Saturday to give some of the lowest-paid American workers their first raise in nearly a decade, while also handing a big tax cut to some of the wealthiest.
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The House in the early hours voted 230-180 to raise the $5.15-per-hour minimum wage in three 70-cent steps until it reaches $7.25 in mid-2009.

During a bitter floor debate, Rep. Phil English, a Pennsylvania Republican, said most Democrats' opposition to the bill showed "they've always liked the politics of the minimum wage and cared little for the policy of the minimum wage."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060729/bs_nm/congress_wage_taxes_dc;

NYTimes:

House Passes Minimum Wage Increase

By CARL HULSE
Published: July 29, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 29 — The House approved an increase in the federal minimum wage on Saturday, but its future was clouded because Republicans tied the pay change to an estate tax cut that had been blocked in the Senate.

In a prelude to a summer of campaigning in the battle for control of Congress, lawmakers clashed bitterly over the Republican decision to link the tax break for affluent Americans to a $2.10 increase in the minimum wage before the legislation was approved after 1 a.m. on a 230 to 180 vote.

The vote came after the House, which is heading home for a five-week recess packed with political activities, easily approved a measure intended to bolster the nation’s pension system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/washington/29cong.html?hp&ex=1154232000&en=7837ea5e2bf89f5b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

MSNBC:

House approves minimum wage increase
GOP couples boost with estate tax cut, but problems foreseen in Senate

WASHINGTON - Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

Combining the two issues provoked protests from Democrats and was sure to cause problems in the Senate, where the minimum wage initiative was likely to die at the hands of Democrats opposed to the costly estate tax cuts. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation next week.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14074153/

ALL THE STORIES LEAD OFF THAT ITS ABOUT MINIMUM WAGE. In reality, the bill is about the Estate Tax and minimum wage is at the bottom:

H.R. 5970

http://www.rules.house.gov/109_2nd/text/etetra/THOMAS_1...

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit
against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000,to repeal
the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes,and
to extend expiring provisions,and for other purposes.

Nice of how our MSM makes this about the Minimum Wage and barely mentions the estate tax.

What other MSM coverage do you guys see?

[halobeam]

1. Our Dems let them get away with it. They suck too.

I'm pissed off, can ya tell? .grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[LSK]

4. kinda hard to do anything without the votes

There is no filibuster in the house.

[Sydnie]

2. I saw that handwriting on the wall last night just as you did

Even made note of the moment that the framing went down.

They suck. We need to make sure that the REAL name and purpose of this bill gets noticed too.

[msongs]

3. dems can win big on this deceit - framing it right. news reports fade

but the concept of repubs being decietful lasts forever, or at least until the election.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/howarddean2008.htm

[TexasLawyer]

5. rotten reporting

Thanks for pulling these stories together. On the brighter side, NPR did a pretty good job with reporting on this midnight looting of the US treasury.

[Dinger]

6. I Heard Caffrerty Say Something About This Yesterday

I believe there was an e-mail question about it. Cafferty said (paraphrasing here) that the only way they (House) would raise the minimum wage was if they gave the rich a BIG tax break. You could tell is disgusted him. I don't recall the answers were e-mailed in.

[michaelpush]

7. Typical political games

"Oh, you want min wage increase? well, in order to get it, you will give us rich republicans and our rich friends and donors more money too, after all we have to live just like you!" :grr:

I would seize all their property, freeze their accounts and make them live on minimum wage!

Min wage should be 7.25 an hr NOW!