And they know that, for instance, raising a minimum wage is popular with the people of Wisconsin. So they don't want to have their members take a hard vote against it in public. So they simply kill it. They never bring it up for a committee hearing. They let the Clock run out. That's what they did. The last session I had two bills. One was raising a minimum wage. The other one was wage theft to help low income workers that are getting ripped off by employers. (06:22–06:26)
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Asserts that the legislature avoids discussing raising the minimum wage by not scheduling committee hearings.
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