Capitol Hill Buzz: Dems Push Higher Pay For Senate Workers

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Mon, 04/27/2015 - 3:07pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports about a Senate cafeteria worker who makes so little money he is homeless are prompting calls for change from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers led by the No. 2 Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, released a letter Monday urging the Senate Rules Committee, which oversees Senate services, to provide a preference to contractors that pay a living wage and fair health insurance and benefits. "No one who works in these buildings should be homeless or have to rely on public assistance or charity to feed their families," Gladden said in a statement released along with the senators' letter.

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Capitol Hill Buzz: Dems Push Higher Pay For Senate Workers

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