Reid Delays Action on Minimum Wage

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “delayed action on legislation raising the minimum wage, the centerpiece of the Democrats’ 2014 agenda,” The Hill reports.

“The Nevada Democrat made the surprising move amid escalating Democratic resistance in the wake of a Congressional Budget Office report released last week estimating that hiking the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could cost the equivalent of 500,000 jobs by late 2016.”

“Reid has not yet unified his caucus on the issue, which is a constant in the Democrats’ election-year playbook. Of the 55 senators who caucus with the Democrats, only 32 have signed on as official co-sponsors of Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) bill.”