Kendrick Meek: “When you talk about minimum wage, I can tell you right now, as it relates to the middle-class squeeze on families…”

“When you talk about minimum wage, I can tell you right now, as it relates to the middle-class squeeze on families, especially as it relates to lower incomes and higher costs, these are rising health care costs up here. And here are the falling incomes of those individuals as they continue to make less and less and they are having to spend more and more. And I think it is also important, Mrs. Tubbs Jones, to point out the fact that we want to take this country in a new direction. That is what we are talking about. You want to talk about salary increases, Mr. Speaker. For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.”