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I have argued publicly several times before that teachers should be paid more.

To dispute these two facts would make anyone out of touch with reality.

Teachers and students deserve more than the same tired fights over money.

Internet access in rural communities is of paramount importance.

We have got to continue to work on the last mile. We have got to encourage investment.

I want to add my thanks to all the witnesses who have been here today.

Are you concerned that more than doubling the Federal minimum wage would reverse these positive trends for workers and the economy?

In your view, is increasing the minimum wage to $15 an anti-poverty policy?

All work has dignity

Over the last several years, the far-left has begun to call for extreme social policies that were, until recently, considered too radical for the mainstream.

I do think some Democrats, and maybe one on this committee, understands the free market, how it really works and the opportunities it creates for Americans from every walk of life.

Just raising, increasing the minimum wage in my State of Florida to $10.10 per hour would decrease SNAP expenditures by $290 million.

Everybody has to eat, and we heard this morning from laborers, workers who are in the fast food business and other businesses who have a difficult time trying to make the ends meet for their family.

Too often we view economic progress as a zero-sum game where if workers win, employers lose.

Equality makes dignity, and dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts throughout the week, and I am quoting Dr. Martin Luther King on that.

What do these States' experiments tell us about what would happen in other regions of the country if a mandate to impose a $15 minimum wage around the country was enacted?

Shouldn't you have the right to live out your best life, to live the future that you want for yourself and not this by-default position that you are placed in because you are attempting to survive?

I think we need to take note of the lost opportunity cost of not increasing a minimum wage here.