07/13/2009
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"You have a chance here to live up to the legacy of Congresswoman Mary Norton."
"The reason the exclusion was so devastating to African Americans is that from 1930 to 1940, 40 percent of Southern Blacks were in agriculture."
"Early votes on raising the minimum wage showed the national consensus on raising the wage and the importance of maintaining a decent floor of wages."
"Those original components in the 1938 bill had exemptions that, however, were not benign."