Senate, minimum wage, parenting, etc

I do not fall into the category where I make minimum wage but I overheard on the news that the senate rejected a bill which would have raised the minimum wage from the present $5.15 an hour to $6.25. For the past eight years the senate has failed to approve raising the minimum wage to help minimize the near-poverty that people in this income bracket must sustain. Only one other time in history has there been this much time go by without raising the minimum wage. The true sadness to this is that during the same amount of time the Senate has given themselves seven (yep seven) pay increases which raised their income by $28.000. With inflation alone over these eight years it would stand to reason that a person couldn't raise a family on this wage. This is why most people resort to working two or more jobs. In my opinion this takes parents from their children and leaving them in the care of others to raise. So when we have government officials complaining about how children are guided by their parents perhaps they should stand up and take some of the responsibility themselves. Just who is it taking the parents from their children?