What these trade agreements, in essence, said to corporate America: ‘Hey, no problem. You can throw American workers out on the street.’
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We don’t have to hate China. We don’t have to hate other people. Let’s figure out a way to work together.
America must stop large corporations from moving jobs to 'low-wage countries.'
The oligarchs have unlimited amounts of money. They own the media, they have tremendous power over the political process.
I think some of them are Republicans, some of them may be conservative Democrats.
I think it’s a problem that we are losing the middle.
We need a rational and well-thought-out trade policy, not arbitrary actions from the White House.
Now is the time to address the crises facing working Americans. I ask for a ``yes'' vote. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Louisiana.
This amendment is simple and straightforward. Millions of Americans today are working for starvation wages. What this amendment does is raise the Federal minimum wage from an embarrassingly low $7.25 an hour to a living wage of $17 an hour…