Reviewing yesterday's Daily Digest (or durable), as all good boys and girls should (ha!), I see that, following his coup on S1 (ethics bill), DeMint is trying his hand at mischief once more.

DeMint has submitted an amendment (SA 158) to SA 100, the bipartisan substitute, which would mandate a different Federal minimum wage for each state, based on the minimum wage law rates in that state.

The DeMint amendment applies the proposed increases in the Federal minimum wage (in HR 2 as passed by the House) but not to the current Federal rate of $5.15 but to the current rate applicable in the state in which the employee lives.

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A Kossack piece leads me to an illuminating Senate vote on Wednesday.

At issue was an amendment to HR 4954 the SAFE Ports Act containing the text of S 3875, the Real Security Act.

S 3875 contains the Dem leadership's proposals for dealing with homeland security, Iraq and related matters, and the amendment was offered by Harry Reid.

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