01/17/2000
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"I've tried to—I've increased the number of empowerment zones."
"We're so blessed. We've got this wonderful, wonderful system of undergraduate education and colleges where there are literally hundreds of good choices."
"This modest increase would simply restore the real value of the minimum wage to what it was in 1982."
"I am writing this letter to encourage you to pass a straightforward minimum wage bill that gives working Americans the pay raise they deserve."