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While British lawmakers were called back into session to debate that nation’s involvement in military action against ISIS, U.S. lawmakers have been everywhere but Washington.

On TV, congressional leaders have said they would meet to debate the issues, but only if President Barack Obama asks.

As Jon Stewart learned on Monday night’s “Daily Show,” these politicians don’t actually need the president to call them into session to start debating.

So why are they hiding? Stewart found a rare bit of honesty from the most unlikely source: an actual member of Congress, who admits that lawmakers are better off just sitting on the sidelines and criticizing the president than actually meeting and debating.

And that left Stewart fuming.

Check out his rant in the clip above.

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Sept 29 (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to expand the city’s living wage measure to include thousands of additional workers, as well as increase the amount workers are paid under the law, the New York Times reported on Monday.

De Blasio will sign an executive order on Tuesday to make the change, which his administration estimated could extend coverage to 18,000 workers over the next five years, the newspaper said on its website.

The living wage would go to $11.50 an hour from $10.30 for workers who receive benefits such as health insurance, and for those without benefits, it would rise to $13.13 an hour from $11.90 an hour, the paper said.

The planned action follows moves by several cities to raise wages for workers at the bottom of the pay scale.

Seattle approved a phased-in $15 overall minimum wage in June, while San Francisco residents will vote on a $15 minimum in November and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has pledged to bring the city’s minimum wage to $13.25 an hour by 2017.

During his campaign for mayor last year, de Blasio railed against economic inequality in America’s most populous city.

“We cannot continue to allow rampant and growing income inequality,” de Blasio told the paper. “Every tool counts. If we reach 18,000 families with this tool and get them to a decent standard of living, that’s a game-changer for those families.”

The mayor’s executive order would cover employees of commercial tenants in development projects that take in more than $1 million in city subsidies, the paper said.

The 18,000 workers who would be covered represent about 70 percent of all jobs at businesses that will get financial help from the city’s Economic Development Corporation, it added.

The city’s living wage law was passed in 2012, and officials told the newspaper that it applied to about 1,200 jobs.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, supports a plan to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from $8 now, and allow New York City and other areas to set it 30 percent higher.

If approved by the state legislature, the plan could allow de Blasio to match the minimum wage to the living wage. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

More often than not, if you wanted a cheap tablet, you’re practically confined to choosing from among the myriad of budget Android options out there, which actually includes HP. But what if you wanted or even needed a full Windows 8 experience on the cheap? Now you have an option with HP’s new Stream 7 and Stream 8 tablets. Although … Continue reading