George Miller: “today we are going to get a vote on the minimum wage, but unfortunately under the amendments offered by Speaker Gingrich…”

“today we are going to get a vote on the minimum wage, but unfortunately under the amendments offered by Speaker Gingrich and the Republicans, they will repeal and take away the benefits of the minimum wage for up to 10 million American workers. For the students who work while going to school, for people who work all day in the sun to put food on our table, for the people who work in sweatshops, for people who wait on us in restaurants and for the disabled who are trying to earn a living and support themselves with their disabling condition, 10 million American workers will find that they will no longer have the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the minimum wage. Newt Gingrich is once again going to bring back the ability of employers to exploit children in the workplace, to exploit women in sweatshops, to exploit the disabled in sheltered workshops. This is not what the American people want. The American people want an increase in the minimum wage so those individuals who have chosen work over welfare will have the ability to support their families, not to exploit those people.”