Patricia Schroeder: “I just came to the floor because my calendar says it is March 6. My whole problem is I cannot figure out when we are…”

“I just came to the floor because my calendar says it is March 6. My whole problem is I cannot figure out when we are going to get our work done. It seems to me, if it is March 6, that means we are almost halfway through this fiscal year, we still have four bills that have not been signed, we still have the debt ceiling issue, we still have the fact that we can shut Government down at any moment, and what we are hearing from the primaries out there, where the people are really being able to speak, is they think we have missed the whole boat, that this issue is really about the average American family and how they keep the middle-class American working standard. So, Mr. Speaker, let us talk about that, what that is and how we have not done anything for that. Mr. Speaker, the American people feel we have really missed the boat, we have missed the core challenge, and that is helping America's working families, the ones who work, the ones who get up every morning, the ones who are struggling like mad, the ones who feel like one of those hamsters in a wheel where they run faster and faster every year, their tongues are hanging out, and yet they feel they do not get out of the bottom of that wheel. Now one of the things that we have not done that would help, we are going to see a lot of photo ops with these people, but these people really do not care about photo ops. They really care about some policy that would help them. Let us start with the minimum wage.…”