George Miller: “Members of the House, apparently the Republicans have gotten the message. America's families are working harder than…”

“Members of the House, apparently the Republicans have gotten the message. America's families are working harder than ever, longer than ever, and earning less than at any time in the last 20 years. The reason for that is simply that wages have not kept up. But what we now see is the Republicans fighting an effort to bring a minimum wage to a livable wage. We see it is Republicans now allowing employers to take away people's overtime, overtime that has become, unfortunately, more and more important to maintaining family wages in this country. So, what we have is, we have a dual attack on working families, and now we see also that they are going to bring us a welfare bill that will plunge a million more children into poverty that are not in poverty today. Half of those children are in working families, but because their families cannot earn a better minimum wage, because they will not be allowed to earn more overtime, those families are now going to be put into poverty because they are also going to lose what little benefits they get under the current welfare system. No; working families, working poor families, working middle class families continue to be under assault by this Republican Congress because they have not got the message these families need help.”