Well, I would appreciate it for the record if you would provide us with--and I know, I hope it is not too hard--what we expect of them, and also what we expect of companies and corporations that do business there.

And I think you hit a big part of that, Ms. Traub, when you said, 'Because the workers do not have any power.'

When college costs were a lot lower.

We have to do better than this for our children.

The constant refrain is, no, we cannot raise the minimum wage because it will cost jobs, there will be fewer people employed.

we need to remind ourselves, with a Federal minimum wage right now of $7.25, we have a bill pending to raise it to $10.10.

There is no issue that is more important than what we are discussing today.

Twenty years, and you are still paying for this.

the major argument for not raising the minimum wage, that is, it will cost jobs, at least the academic studies seem to show is not right.

I am a big supporter of unions. I am. But raising the minimum wage is a far more economically efficient way to generate growth.

I want to say thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to go fight about student loans for a little while now.

I was on the floor talking about the approaching increase in student loan interest rates and how Congress needs to take action now.

It is about our opportunity. It is about how we build.

State schools, they were supported back then.

If I was God and could do anything I wanted, I would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over 3 years, starting tomorrow.

low wages have been one of the reasons that we have hollowed out America's middle class.

This is a big ticking time bomb because people can get out of other kinds of debt through bankruptcy, but as you know, they cannot get out of student debt.

When minimum wages go up, workers have more money. And when workers have more money, they buy things from the very companies that raised those wages.