King, please don't ever apologize for being passionate about children.

Would you categorize Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 as a regulation?

I would say to you, Mr. Scafidi, if you think this is just about salaries, that is not how this works.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of a bill to provide real consequences against those who would seek to commit fraud at the expense of America's Veterans. H.R 450, the Bipartisan ``Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act,'' would close…

Mr. Speaker, I was absent for the vote on H.R. 450-- Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on Roll Call No. 70. ____________________

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

Internet access in rural communities is of paramount importance.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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?

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