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The question is not does it make sense to increase the minimum wage to $15. The question is who in their right mind would disagree?

Working hard is not enough if you don't make enough, and on 7.25, you can't survive.

I would go for the 30. It was fortunate--it was unfortunate, though, that hearing was canceled because we had hard-working folks from many of our service industries in Washington that day, all fighting for $15 because they know that $15 is…

Liberal activists are trying to sell a radical minimum wage hike as a benefit to working class Americans.

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

Mandating a $15 minimum wage would have serious negative consequences for students, workers, and small businesses.

A recent study by the National Federation of Independent Business found that raising the minimum wage to $15 would destroy 1.6 million jobs and 615,000 able-bodied individuals would be pushed out of the work force by the year 2029.

This is an empty promise, the likes of which we have not heard since the famous health care sales job of 2009: If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.

Raising the Federal minimum wage to $15 will not help anyone make ends meet. It will redistribute poverty, eliminate jobs, and deeply harm American workers, businesses, and the U.S. economy at large.

Workers should not be forced to work for poverty-level wages, regardless of where they live.

The evidence clearly demonstrates the Raise the Wage Act is a reasonable proposal that would lift millions of workers out of poverty.

This bill puts money directly into the hands of those who are most likely to spend it in their communities.

If we pass the Raise the Age Act, close to 40 million workers would receive a raise.

We, in this majority, have been sent here to protect the Affordable Care Act.

When we, in North Carolina, forced the Tennessee Valley Authority to significantly reduce coal-fired plant emissions, there was a demonstrable positive effect on public health.

Helping local governments make sure that they are rebuilt and built in a resilient way.

We need to take our...

We know that we have a lot of areas that are in danger of flooding.