Following up on one of the first orders of business of the “100 Hours,” the Senate passes a minimum-wage increase 94-3 for the first time in almost a decade…but not before burdening the House bill with sundry small-business tax breaks to appease the GOP. “House leaders have demanded that the tax measures be stripped from the bill…Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said he may have other plans for the $8.3 billion that the Senate would use for business tax breaks.”