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An increase in the minimum wage is long overdue and should be voted on in a straight-up manner, two Democrats said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Bettendorf.
Iowa 1st Congressional District candidate Bruce Braley of Waterloo was joined by U.S. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Mark Smith, president of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, at the news conference.

About 40 people attended the event at the United Steelworkers of America Local 105 hall in Bettendorf.

The event was held in response to a move late last week in the U.S. House of Representatives that sent a controversial bill on to the U.S. Senate. The measure calls for a minimum-wage increase from the current $5.15 to $7.25 per hour in three years, but it also would make permanent a cut in the so-called “death tax” for multimillion-dollar estates.

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