It's been a frustrating week for us. The tax credit to businesses for health care is our number one issue. We definitely supported the House bill as originally written. As soon as they introduced the minimum wage we stopped supporting it. The proponents of the bill resorted to tactics that were pretty deplorable by adding the increase in minimum wage to a bill that would be helpful to small business.
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