Chris Ward: “the entire Gingrich-Dole Congress that we have seen for the last year and a half has been about one thing: rolling back…”

“the entire Gingrich-Dole Congress that we have seen for the last year and a half has been about one thing: rolling back the clock. Whether it is on Medicare, the environment, educational assistance that we give from the Federal Government, it has been about rolling back the clock. Here we go again. Now under the guise of raising the minimum wage, which is at a 40-year low in purchasing power, they are in fact going to repeal the minimum wage for millions of American workers. Just think of the cynicism that reflects, the opportunity of helping people who are trying to get ahead, people who are playing by the rules and trying to stay off welfare. They are using that as an opportunity to take millions off the protection of the minimum wage. We only need to remember what the Gingrich-Dole leader of the Congress said. "I will resist a minimum wage increase with every fiber of my being," he said. And do my colleagues know what? What they are doing today makes me sick.”