![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If a raise in the federal minimum wage does not happen now, it will not happen soon. Plans have also collapsed to impose tax penalties on large companies that do not pay their employees at least $15. Yet it will not happen as part of the COVID-19 relief bill. Almost 60 percent of the public backs it. The majority leadership in both the House and the Senate supported it. The party that won the 2020 election campaigned on such a raise. Look what happened this past week with the proposal to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour. But any project of reform needs to take something into account: Congress is no bargain either as a representative institution. The War Powers Act of 1973, the Anti-Impoundment Act of 1974, the creation of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in the mid-1970s: These and other measures aimed to restrain the presidency and restore power to Congress.įollowing the presidency of Donald Trump, some in Congress are ready for a new round of rebalancing. ![]() delivered that complaint in 1973, just ahead of a wave of reforms that sought to cut the presidency down to size. “ The constitutional Presidency … has become the imperial Presidency.” ![]()
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