Bill Clinton

That last minimum wage increase provided a significant incentive to work, contributing to the 44 percent decline in the welfare caseload.

I will veto any legislation that holds this minimum wage increase hostage to provisions that delay this overdue pay raise or jeopardize our ability to strengthen Social Security and Medicare and pay down the debt by 2013 for future…

I think it would be a big mistake for Congress not to close the gun show loophole.

I want Congress to finish the gun bill and send it to me by the anniversary of the Columbine tragedy, April 20th.

The Budget provides a total of $32 billion—$6 billion more than last year—with increases for all of HUD's core programs.

It's time for Congress to do what's right for America's families.

More than 10 million workers would benefit from this proposal, the majority of them women.

When first graders shoot first graders, it's time for Congress to do what's right.

One of the fundamental goals of my Administration has been to reinvent government, to make it serve the public better and restore public confidence in the institutions of government.

Today, FHA and its Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund are financially healthier than they have been in decades.

I believe that we can save lives.

The Commission shall provide a report, through the Secretary, to the President on legislative and administrative recommendations for assuring that public policy maximizes the benefits to Americans of complementary and alternative medicine.

Working families across this country deserve an increase that simply restores the real value of the minimum wage to what it was in 1982.

I want this election to be fought out over the issues.

Despite this positive step, however, the Senate still must act on the 38 judicial nominees currently awaiting hearings or floor votes.

For a full-time worker at the minimum wage, this increase would provide a $2,000 annual raise—enough for family of four to buy groceries for 7 months or pay rent for 5 months.

I think the questions which are being asked are legitimate questions and should be asked.

Since 1996, when I worked with Congress to raise the minimum wage by 90 cents over 2 years, the unemployment rate has fallen from 5.2 percent to 4.1 percent—near the lowest level in 30 years.

I am writing this letter to strongly encourage Congress to pass clean, straightforward legislation to raise the minimum wage by $1—from $5.15 to $6.15—in two equal steps.

Congress has kept the American people waiting long enough.

Paez, the first Mexican-American ever to serve as a Federal district court judge in Los Angeles, has awaited a vote for more than 4 years, longer than any judicial nominee in modern history.

I am pleased that the United States Senate, by a vote of 93 to 0, has confirmed Julio Fuentes to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

The Department has twice been recognized by the Kennedy School of Government for innovation in government.

Berzon has been before the Senate for 2 years.

I'm interested in how much we can accomplish to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children.