Republicans Oppose Minimum Wage Hike as Senate Debates Budget

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2015 – Senate Republicans today turned back a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to raise the minimum wage.

The amendment was one of dozens to come up for Senate votes in a once-a-year parliamentary process known, unofficially, as a “vote-a-rama.”

“Since 1968, the real value of the federal minimum wage has fallen by close to 30 percent,” Sanders said before the vote. “Let us stand today with the tens of millions of…