George Miller: “My only question is why an Act of Congress is necessary to make it possible for the District to do so.”

We in the federal government should be helping students and schools make these leaps, not cutting them off at the knees.

We should work with Secretary Perez in the final months of the Congress to pass legislation that will increase the minimum wage.

It is time for Congress to get back into the business of partnering with states and districts in support of schools.

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.