Alan Lowenthal: “All we are asking for is a right to vote. I still remember when the…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2014

All we are asking for is a right to vote. I still remember when the President came, in his State of the Union speech, and it was really just after--in my first year here in the Congress and he was talking about the horrible episode that happened at Sandy Hook and said, ``Give the people the vote. Just give us a vote.'' That is all we are asking our Republican colleagues. Let us vote on raising the minimum wage. That is all. That is the democratic way and ``democratic'' with a small D. That is the American way. Give the people a vote.

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Alan Lowenthal

Democratic · California

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Sep 10, 2014

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