08/21/2012
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"It makes you feel like you want to be dead."
"To have a single mother of two kids working for $7.25 still be below the poverty line because we have allowed the minimum wage to collapse over the last 50 years, I think is a disgrace."
"These numbers are staggering. They are not, obviously, just numbers. It is human lives in what we think of as the greatest country in the world."
"If it were up to me--it is not, unfortunately, up to me--we would have a standing committee of the Senate that was focused on our kids and on their future."