Senator Harkin gave the numbers on the erosion in the buying power of the minimum wage.
We need to do more to support these workers as they try to build opportunity for their families and their futures.
If you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to support your family, join the middle class, and build a br...
The middle class is the backbone of our economy, and we have to grow that middle class to have a growing economy.
If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since 1968, today it would be $10.56.
But do you agree with Milton Friedman that a welfare state and an open borders policy are incompatible?
There seems to be people in this Congress that can take the position that they respect, and defend, and protect the rule...
I just did not think it was arguable that this is a welfare state, but do you understand that it is incompatible to have...
I think that it should go up.
This bill will gradually increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three annual steps.
The minimum wage right now is, in fact, worth 31 percent less than at its peak in 1968.
That is why my legislation would first increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, over 3 years, and then index it afte...
That is why last week I joined with Congressman George Miller to introduce the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013.
A fair minimum wage that is predictable, with modest increases that keep wages steadily growing in pace with inflation, ...
Well, I would back you up on that. In fact, probably we have been pussyfooting around too long.
the crisis created by lack of sustainable forest management is crippling rural communities that believed the promises of...
If there is a difference with this administration, it is not different from previous administrations only in the sense t...
Things can move slowly within government, but this seems to be a bit too much.
