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January 12, 2007

Minimum wage exemption miracle

It took less the 100 hours for special exemptions to make their way into Democrat pushed legislation. By some unknown miracle a single exemption for a single island with two major employers based out of Pelosi's district in San Francisco made it into the bill. The feat was accomplished with no lobbying effort whatsoever.

The bill also extends for the first time the federal minimum wage to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. However, it exempts American Samoa, another Pacific island territory that would become the only U.S. territory not subject to federal minimum-wage laws.
One of the biggest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island's work force. StarKist's parent company, Del Monte Corp., has headquarters in San Francisco, which is represented by Mrs. Pelosi. The other plant belongs to California-based Chicken of the Sea.

A spokeswoman for Mrs. Pelosi said Wednesday that the speaker has not been lobbied in any way by StarKist or Del Monte.

Let us all sit back and marvel at this immaculate exemption. We are saved.

Posted by Sid at January 12, 2007 06:34 AM | Politics

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