I know that when I come to the floor and remind my colleagues about my involvement in the 1986 immigration bill, it sounds like a broken record. I said early on this year that I wanted to educate my colleagues about the mistakes we made in…

Inflation has steadily eroded the value of the minimum wage, as you said, Senator, by 30 percent since 1968.

Yes, but the economy went down the toilet. Don't you think that had a bigger effect than the minimum wage?

Let's assure a better future for Kizzie Simmons' daughter, who wants a college education; for Pattie Federico, who deserves a chance at the American dream.

Your testimony included the hypothetical case of a single mother working at minimum wage in Des Moines who would purportedly lose public benefits like child care subsidies if she received a raise.

The jobless rate was a staggering 19 percent in 1938. Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, President Roosevelt signed it, and employment went up.

I think it's been well settled in this country for a long time that we do have a minimum wage.

Mr. President, with the passing of Senator Frank Lautenberg this month, the Senate lost one of its most respected and accomplished members--a great progressive driven by a passion for justice and a deep love for this country. Indeed, Frank…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the privilege of being recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I won't, at this time, take up all the issues that were raised in the previous 45 minutes or so…

Has the Senator yielded the floor? I don't think I want to speak until I have it.

Is there a time limit for me to speak? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana had 10 minutes, which has now expired. The Senator from Iowa has no time allocated to him.

Reserving the right to object, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

Mr. President, I am not going to make a unanimous consent request. I want to speak about a piece of legislation I hope to introduce before we finish the bill on immigration. This is a Grassley-Kirk amendment numbered 1299, and I am having…

Mr. President, I want to make a few points in response to the Senator from Louisiana who has been pushing to get a number of so-called noncontroversial amendments adopted. There have been a number of misrepresentations. A major incorrect…

Reserving the right to object, and I probably will have to object, but let me explain first of all that this is a rare moment that Senator Landrieu and I might be on the opposite side of the fence. And maybe when this is all done, we will…

Mr. President, yesterday we had the good fortune of receiving the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate of the immigration bill before the Senate, and I would like to mention two findings from the CBO report. It says the bill will…

Madam President, I want to speak for a few minutes on the progress we are making on the immigration bill. In speaking about the progress, it also gives me a chance to say to my colleagues on this side of the aisle that I hope we can get an…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman of the Agriculture Committee for yielding, and I want to also thank him for his leadership on this bill. This is a carefully balanced bill that we have, and I don't challenge the convictions of the…