Thank you for your consideration of H.R.
if we just started in 1960... the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour.
The bill would direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey the Pearson Aviation Museum complex to the city of Vancouver, Washington.
I have to say, you have now switched your argument from what it was going to do to your business, to what it is going to do to the economy.
During the Full Committee markup, Democrats worked with the Majority to amend H.R. 1838 to continue the prohibition of complex swaps employe...
A sustainable wage actually reduces the cost for the employers, and keeps people employed.
when productivity increases, when profits increase, is there a reason that the minimum wage should not increase as well?
I appreciate the point, Mr. Rutigliano, but I want to go back to the question I had earlier.
what happened to the other $14.75? It sure did not go to the worker.
What I am looking for is the ability to have an honest discussion with not just my colleagues, but also my constituents, to tell them the tr...
I want to be clear. I am asking more than just sequester. We have a trust fund issue.
For me it is much more interesting, when I go to my constituents, I talk about specific projects.
the sequester is only the beginning. We may have another one next year. We have a trust fund issue.
And to be perfectly honest, everybody likes to do different things. I am not one who likes to throw around hundreds of millions of dollars o...
Everything we have talked about today costs money, everything.
I think it speaks for itself, when you lose 40 percent of the companies doing the business, that there is an inherent problem that everybody...
I can't imagine that anyone would defend a stupid law, and therefore we should change a stupid law.
I happen to believe that had it not grown at the time it did, there would be no housing market right now.
