Friends -

No one can afford to live on the federal minimum wage alone. At $7.25 an hour, it is a starvation wage.

That includes almost 1 in 5 veterans who would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase -- 2/3 of whom are older than 40 years old.

So it was GREAT NEWS to see that just yesterday, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

But now we need the Senate to take up this bill. So the pressure has to start now:

Sign VoteVets' petition - tell Senator Mitch McConnell to debate and vote on the House-passed legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

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This is a popular bill -- one supported by the vast majority of the American people. That's precisely why McConnell would like its existence to fade into the background.

We can't let that happen. Be heard.

All our best,

The team at VoteVets






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