A Burger King employee serves a customer through the restaurant’s drive-through window in Portland, Maine, on December 5, 2013. (Gordon Chibroski/Portland Press Herald | Getty Images)

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would double the federal minimum wage and eliminate subminimum wage for people with disabilities and other classes of employees. The changes would phase in over several years. The bill now goes from the Democrat-controlled House to the Republican-controlled Senate.