05/03/1999
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"This is about whether people will be organized and energized to go out and vote."
"Recent history has shown that those who argue that even a reasonable increase in the minimum wage would harm the economy are wrong."
"Today's vote, however, is not the final word, and I will continue to work with a bipartisan majority in the Congress that supports a real increase in the minimum wage."
"If he's in the Senate, he will do it right."