** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks President Obama. (Associated Press photographs)
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Saturday brought more evidence of how differently President Obama
and congressional Republicans will approach this crucial election
year, with the White House turning attention to its economic and income-equality agenda while the GOP remains focused on the health-care reform law and its fallout across the country.In his weekly address, the president again pushed for a minimum wage hike — from $7.25 to $10.10 — for all Americans and highlighted the fact that he recently implemented such a pay raise for federal contractors through executive action.
But Rep. Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican who gave this week’s GOP address, didn’t mention the president’s minimum-wage push or any related issue, choosing instead to focus entirely on Obamacare.
The minimum wage increase for all Americans is a key piece of what Mr. Obama has dubbed the “opportunity agenda,” and unlike other parts of that agenda, it must go through Congress.
“Raising the minimum wage wouldn’t just raise their wages — its effect would lift wages for about 28 million Americans,” the president said. “It would lift millions of Americans out of poverty and help millions more work their way out of poverty without requiring a single dollar in new taxes or spending. It will give more businesses more customers with more money to spend, and that means growing the economy for everyone. You deserve to know where the people who represent you stand on this. If they don’t support raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, ask them ‘why not?’”
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