George Miller: “The approach we have put forward, which is backed by business and labor leaders, will secure the multiemployer pension…”

In 1997, President Clinton wrote a letter to the Governor in the Northern Mariana Islands who had hired Team Abramoff to oppose raising minimum wage.

Trust these workers enough to give them this opportunity and this responsibility to make these decisions about their own retirement.

Let's just fix the problems with it. Let's don't start from scratch and rewrite the whole law.

I'm afraid that an awful lot of time and motion is being wasted trying to give the appearance of reform instead of actually making real, structural changes.