Wendy Sherman: “This is a sham procedure. A 1,000-page bill. No time to read it. It is…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2006

This is a sham procedure. A 1,000-page bill. No time to read it. It is an insulting bill. In order to provide a tiny increase in the minimum wage, we have to give billions of dollars of tax cuts to those who are inheriting from families with over a $7 million estate. But there is a special hypocrisy here. You see, this minimum-wage bill has a poison pill. They know it won't pass the Senate. There is only one pay-increase bill that is supposed to become law. That is the one that includes our pay raise. Our pay raise went through on a clean bill. They knew it would pass the Senate. The minimum-wage increase goes with a poison pill that is dead on arrival in the Senate. We know which pay raise they want, and which pay raise they don't want. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to our distinguished Democratic leader, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi).

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Wendy Sherman

Democratic · District of Columbia

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Wendy Sherman: “This is a sham procedure. A 1,000-page bill. No time to read it. It is an insulting bill. In order to provide a tiny…”