Lucille Roybal-Allard: “we just passed the minimum wage amendment and now my Republican colleagues want to take it away from the American…”

“we just passed the minimum wage amendment and now my Republican colleagues want to take it away from the American worker. The Goodling amendments are slick strategies to prevent 13 million workers from receiving the 90 cents increase. These Republican amendments gut the spirit of the minimum wage increase by denying benefits to almost 10 million minimum wage workers in retail and service firms; and teenagers under the age of 20; additionally millions of hardworking waiters and waitresses will be exempted from the wage increase. Furthermore, millions of additional minimum wage workers will be losers because according to the Labor Department estimates, over two-thirds of American firms will be exempted from paying the minimum wage under these amendments. It is time the Gingrich Republicans stop playing games with the American worker and give them the full benefit of the minimum wage increase just passed by this a large majority of this House and which is supported by the American people who know workers need a raise. Vote ``no'' on the Goodling amendment.”