George Miller: “What we need is we need an up or down vote on the minimum wage. We now have a majority in this House asking for that up…”

“What we need is we need an up or down vote on the minimum wage. We now have a majority in this House asking for that up or down vote. We have a majority in the Senate asking for that up or down vote, and what they ought to stop doing is throwing all of these things to try to throw people off the track and suggest that somehow they are there for low income working people in this country, because the fact of the matter is they are not there for low income working people in this country. These people are going to work every day, and when they get done at the end of the year after working every day, they end up poor and they cannot provide for themselves or for others, and that simply is unacceptable in this country. The country recognizes it is unacceptable. Apparently only the leadership in the House of Representatives and the Republican Party fails to recognize the need to do this and the need to do it now and to do it in a clean fashion.”