(Reuters) - The agreement -- reached over the weekend between negotiators for the Senate and the House of Representatives -- will tie the tax changes to an increase in the federal minimum wage over two years from the current $5.15 per hour to $7.25.
The wage and tax package has been added to a $100 billion Iraq war funding bill that President George W. Bush has threatened to veto.
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