"If we would actually pass the minimum wage bill, there is an estimate in terms of the billions of savings for the taxpayer."
"Good Help is Harder to Find."
"The Wage and Hour Division at the Department of Labor plays a vital role in enforcing our nation's wage and hour laws."
"This administration has taken steps to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers, supports the Miller-Harkin Minimum Wage Act."
"Raising the minimum wage is not only good for millions of workers that would directly benefit, but also for our economy as a whole."
"You want to cut the deficit in the agriculture account, in food stamps accounts, SNAP? Raise the minimum wage."
"In my district, a total of 42,000 workers would benefit, including 24,000 women."
"Wage theft is most common in low-wage industries and as a result, disproportionately impacts the workers who are the least able to afford to take action on their own."
"Raising the minimum wage is not only good for the millions of workers that would directly benefit, but also for our economy as a whole."
"Passing this law would make a real difference in the lives of many people who we represent, and as a result, it at least deserves to be debated and voted on by this chamber."
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"I guess I have been around here long enough that I remember that hearing."