Kendrick Meek: “Since there has been oil, since the dinosaurs went down and made oil. Okay, this is just where it is. These guys, they…”

“Since there has been oil, since the dinosaurs went down and made oil. Okay, this is just where it is. These guys, they are making more money than ever before, but guess what, the American people are paying for it, and the rubber-stamp Congress, on top of them making profits, are giving the taxpayers' money away and telling the minimum-wage workers to suck it up. You want a minimum wage? We have got leaders in Republican conference that are saying minimum wage, please. But meanwhile, back at the ranch, they have been getting a raise. We have all been getting a raise, year after year after year after year after year after year after year. Minimum-wage workers punch in and punch out every day. We ask individuals to go to work. They have gone to work. They are trying to raise their families. No one is coming to them and saying, hey, we are going to give you a $3,100 raise, we are going to give you a $4,700 raise, we are going to give you a $4,100 raise, we are going to give you a $3,900 raise, we are going to give you a $3,100 raise, and we are going to give you a $3,600 raise, and next year you are going to get another raise and the year after that you are going to get another raise. These folks are making $5.15 an hour and we are saying suck it up. Well, on this side of the aisle, we have said we are not going to vote for an increase in the Members of Congress pay until the American people get a raise; and in our new direction for America, Mr.…”