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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate ap
proved a 90-cent increase in the minimum
wage Tuesday, raising the prospect of bigger
paychecks for more than 10 million Ameri
cans. Lawmakers rejected a Republican pro
posal to narrow the number eligible, culmi
nating months of acrimonious debate.
The 74-24 vote to raise the minimum from
the current $4.25 an hour to $4.75 initially
and to $5.15 by next July was a victory for
Democrats who have sought to make it a
central election-year issue.
“The invisible Americans who have been
left out and left behind were recognized to
day by the U.S. Senate,” said Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., a leading proponent.
The bill was part of a package of tax breaks
aimed mainly at business that passed the
House by 281-144 in a similar version on May
23. The two chambers still must work out dif
ferences in the tax section of the legislation.
Sen. Majority Whip Don Nickles, R-Okla.,
said he might try to block the House-Senate
negotiating conference until Democrats give
ground on stalled health care legislation.
But Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle
of South Dakota said Republicans would ob
struct final passage “at their own peril.”
Americans overwhelmingly support the
increase and Nickles “would be held respon
sible should he decide to pursue that
course,” Daschle said.
F*resident Clinton urged Congress to send
him the bill quickly for his signature. “There
is no reason that minimum wage workers
should have to wait any longer for their
raise. This is not a time to nickel and dime
our working families.”
Vice President A1 Gore made a rare ap
pearance in his capacity as president of the
Senate to oversee the final vote and stress
its importance. “If you are looking for a
straw in the wind” to see how political for
tunes are blowing this year, “look no further
than this vote,” he said.
The Clinton administration has cam
paigned vigorously for the wage increase
and has chided Bob Dole, President Clin
ton’s likely opponent in November, for not
speaking out in behalf of it. The minimum
wage issue bedeviled Dole’s final days as
Senate majority leader, with Kennedy and
other Democrats blocking movement of oth
er bills because of GOP reluctance to take
up the minimum wage.
Dole’s campaign, in a statement, said he
had made clear his support of a raise in the
wage and said Clinton had ignored the issue
in his first two years and was now “playing
maximum politics with minimum wage.”
Clinton, while saying the increase was cru
cial in helping millions of working Americans
escape poverty, had promised to veto the bill if
it contained an amendment, proposed by Sen.
Christopher Bond, R-Mo., to exempt newly
hired employees and workers in businesses
grossing less than $500,000 a year.
Bond’s measure would have allowed em
ployers to wait six months before meeting
the minimum wage. It would also have de
layed until Jan. 1 the date for raising the
wage to $4.75 and until Jan. 1, 1998 for in
stituting the full $5.15, both six months be
yond the House-set dates.
The House bill allows for a 90-day
when teen-agers can be given a "subni
mum” or “training” wage of $4.25. Bi
would double that period and make it aj
to all new workers.
His amendment was defeated 52-46,»
Five I^epublicans joining all 47 Democrats it
posing it. Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt.,i
joined GOP Sens. Ben Nighthorse Campbt
Colorado, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
fonse D’amato of New York and Mark Half
of Oregon in voting against it, voiced cons
that businesses would fire workers after
months to avoid paying the minimum wage
The Senate also rejected by 52-46
amendment by Kennedy that would have
duced the training wage time for teen-ad
to 30 days and removed House languages
ping the hourly wage that must be paid
those receiving tips.
Supporters of the bill argued that;!
minimum wage has not been raised si:
1991 and is nearing a 40-year low inf
chasing power. They said the $8,800 an in;]
vidual can earn on the minimum wag t
slightly more than half the poverty levelj
come for a family of four.
But Republicans said the raise could for
small businesses to make large-scale Jayo:
of low-income workers, adding to the welta
rolls. "There’s something worse thanli
wages and that’s no wages,” said Senate N
jority Leader Trent Ixitt, R-Miss.
Bond accused Democrats of being man
ulated by organized labor and said the4
feat of his amendment "shows me they dor
care about small business in America.”
Lamm launches presidential campaign
DENVER (AP) — With just $6,000 and a
“hard-choices” slogan, former Colorado Gov.
Richard Lamm on Tuesday began a drive
for the presidential nomination of Ross Per
ot’s fledgling Reform Party.
The lifelong Democrat framed his uphill
campaign as an outsider’s wake-up call to
the nation, declaring, “I begin this cam
paign with only one promise, and that’s to
present the truth and, in some cases, the
hard truth, and to trust you to make the
right choices.”
His decision was sure to muddy the race
between President Clinton and Republican
Bob Dole, and it threatened a showdown
with Perot himself, who has left his candi
dacy for the Reform Party nomination an
open question.
At a packed news conference on the
University of Denver campus where he
teaches a course dubbed “Hard Choices,”
Lamm said he would campaign on a plat
form of restoring fiscal sanity to Wash
ington by drastically curbing popular en
titlement programs such as Medicare and
Social Security
“America has to ask itself not what it
wants, but what it can afford. ... The New
Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal
for my children,” Lamm said. He faulted
Democrats and Republicans alike for what
he said were cowardly decisions to paper
over the nation’s problem and leave the bills
to future generations.
With all the hurdles facing this former
law professor little known outside of Col
orado, the Clinton and Dole camps pro
fessed nonchalance about his candidacy.
And pollsters could only guess whether
Lamm would drain more votes from Clinton
or Dole.
“If Dick Lamm getting into this race fo
cuses the debate on the important issues
facing Americans then we welcome it,” said
Clinton-Core spokesman Joe Lockhart. He
dismissed any suggestion the campaign was
worried Lamm would siphon Democratic
votes from Clinton.
Dole spokesman Nelson Warfield’s taki
was that “if two Democrats are in the race, its
probably going to help the one Republican."
Republican pollster Linda DiVall said it
was too early to tell, given Lamm’s minus
cule national profile. She predicted that as
Lamm gains exposure, his “gruff, candid
straightforward approach is one that voter;
will embrace.”
It’s his message — bent on tipping sacred
cows — that could trip him, DiVall said.
Lamm called it “a no-B.S. agenda
Lamm, who left the Colorado statehouse
in 1986 after three terms, wants to grad
ually privatize Social Security, raise the
retirement age to 70 and reduce annual
cost-of-living adjustments. He would
deny both Social Security and Medican
benefits to wealthy retirees. He would,
also scale back veterans’ benefits and
military pensions.
The country, he said, “just doesn’t need
new president. It needs a whole decade
reform and renewal.”
Bertha heads toward U.S., Bahamas Library
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) —
Swirling out of the Caribbean
with four people dead in its
wake, Hurricane Bertha
whipped up force Tuesday, men
aced the Bahamas and headed
for the eastern seaboard of the
United States.
Forecasters expected Bertha
to skirt the U.S. coast from
Florida to Delaware. By late
Wednesday, they should know
just how close it will come to
land, Chris Landsea with the
National Hurricane Center in
Miami said.
“It depends on how close it
gets before it makes the turn”
due north, Landsea said. “When
it’s going to turn is the $64,000
question.”
Late Tuesday, the National
Weather Service issued hurri
cane watches for Georgia and
South and North Carolina and a
tropical storm warning for Flori
da. A watch means the hurri
cane could come close to the area
within 36 hours.
Hurricane warnings were in
effect Tuesday for the Turks and
Caicos Islands and the Ba
hamas, 250 miles east of Florida.
Bertha became more danger
ous early Tuesday, spinning
winds up to 115 mph that up
graded it to a Category 3 storm
capable of extensive damage. Its
size alone — 460 miles around
— makes it formidable, said Jer
ry Jarrell, deputy director of the
U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami.
“This is a huge storm — it’s
more like Hugo in ’89 or Gilbert
in ’88,” Jarrell said.
Forecasters earlier had
thought Bertha would probably
stay south of the United States.
By 11 p.m. EDT, Bertha was
about 70 miles east of San Sal
vador, in the center of the 700-
island Bahamas archipelago.
Its wind speed had decreased
slightly to 105 mph as it moved
toward the northwest at 21 mph,
a motion expected to continue
for the next 24 hours. That
would bring the eye of the storm
near or just east of the central
and northwestern Bahamas, be
fore it turns north, and then
northeast, forecasters said.
Bertha brushed by Puerto
Rico on Monday, then the Turks
and Caicos Tuesday, teasing
them with harmless rain show
ers and gusty winds. But three
people died in storm-related ac
cidents in Fkierto Rico and one in
the Virgin Islands.
Coast Guard officers in Puerto
Rico were searching for a crippled
boat with as many as 42 people
aboard. The boat radioed Monday
that it was in the eye of the hurri
cane and passengers were jump
ing into the water, the Coast
Guard said. There was no sign of
the boat Tuesday afternoon.
Hours earlier than expected,
Bertha drenched the southern
most of the 700 islands in the
Bahamas archipelago Tuesday
afternoon.
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and public leadership.
“Everything is good, the acad
emic building is ahead of sched
ule,” Hermann said. “We areea
couraged by the interest and cv
operation of other departments
Dr. Charles A. Johnson,i
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cal Science Department, said
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cause of the Presidential Li
brary Center.
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source for students.
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