HOUSE DEMOCRATS CONTINUE FIGHT ON MINIMUM WAGE
| WASHINGTON
President Bush won his first battle with Congress over raising the minimum wage, but Democrats are promising to emerge from the next round of the fight with a new measure the President will be unable to kill with another veto. ``Our obligation now is to move forward with a bill which will be enacted and put money in the pockets of low-wage workers this year,'' House Labor Committee chairman Augustus Hawkins (D) of California said last week.