Chuck Grassley: “I am going to be one of those to vote yes to get the job done, to increase the minimum wage. But I think it is…”

“I am going to be one of those to vote yes to get the job done, to increase the minimum wage. But I think it is legitimate to ask a couple of questions. One, there was a period of time during that 10 years that Senator Kennedy's party was in the majority and controlled the Senate. I don't recall them bringing up the minimum wage issue at that particular time. If it was so important that it be done before this period of time has elapsed, I would have thought they would be voicing concern about raising the minimum wage as much and have a responsibility to do it when they were in the majority, as it is now; and we are accused because we want to amend some tax provisions to it, which are very directly related to some of the negative impacts of increasing the minimum wage on small business, and it is a very legitimate point to bring up.”