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  • but have the utmost respect for some dumb senate conventions when it comes to legislating for people to have a wage they can actually live on. Great people.

    What would have happened if the Dems somehow fired the person who made that call and overrode the "dumb conventions"? Would the recovery bill have made it through both houses?

    Really struggling to get my head around this idea that it is acceptable for any government to abandon their own laws and guidelines to push something through.

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