It is unconscionable that women on average make $10,000 less a year than men.

Thirty-eight million Americans would benefit from a raise to the minimum wage.

In your testimony you outline some of the reasons why comp time for private employees is problematic.

We can no longer justify depriving these workers of these basic protections while entrusting them to care for our aging parents and disabled family members.

We can no longer insist that people pull themselves up by their bootstraps when they make the poverty wages.

Congress must continue with this legacy and update the FLSA to reflect current economic and employment realities.

It is absurd that we think that these constituents and this scenario constitute fair wages.

Labor laws like the FLSA were passed for a reason. That reason was to protect workers.

We cannot support efforts to strip workers of their overtime no matter what form it takes.

We can no longer pretend that workers who toil 60 or more hours a week and take home $23,660 a year are paid fair wages.

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