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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Mr. Speaker, abortion and infanticide are not examples of women's healthcare. Abortion advocates used to say they wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. Today, they want abortion to be free, casual, and for newborns. It is…

We have to get moving fast. We have taken some small steps, our states are working very hard to do what we can.

Farmers are getting hit hard by the effects of climate change. And they know it.

I would encourage the Congress to give states more flexibility to use this recovery funding as we rebuild smarter and stronger.