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1) It's hard to make ends meet. Yet Rick Santorum voted against raising the minimum wage.
Roll Call 519, S. Amdt. 2979, October 27, 1995
Roll Call 278, S. Amdt. 3540, September 22, 1998
Roll Call 77, S. Amdt. 195, March 25, 1999
Roll Call 239, S. Amdt. 1383, July 30, 1999
Roll Call 356, S. Amdt. 2751, November 9, 1999
Roll Call 76, S. Amdt. 3079, April 7, 2000
Roll Call 26, S. Amdt. 44, March 7, 2005Roll Call 179, S. Amdt. 4322, June 21, 2006
2) But Santorum voted to allow his own pay to be raised by $8000.
Roll Call 360, S.Amdt. 2349 to H.R. 3338, December 7, 2001
Roll Call 406 , S.Amdt. 1904 to H.R. 2989, October 3, 2003
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More about the Santorum record on the minimum wage:
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1) Last year, Santorum tried to fool people into believing he supported an increase in the minimum wage. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette detailed how Santorum's 85-page amendment to the bankruptcy bill -- which was "widely predicted to fail" -- would have "changed the rules so that fewer workers were protected by minimum wage and overtime laws."
2) Read why the Economic Policy Institute called Santorum's 2005 minimum wage amendment a "trojan horse for workers."
3) Don't miss the Santorum On The Issues section of our web site