I respond through the Chair to the Senator from Alaska. There was a time when there wasn't that much controversy associated with this. We knew that we waited too long. People had fallen behind in their earning potential. We had to pick the right number. We came up with it and moved forward on a bipartisan basis. But now things are so partisan and so poisonous in the Senate that even something as basic as raising the minimum wage for hard-working families turns out to be a political lift.
Dick Durbin: “I respond through the Chair to the Senator from Alaska. There was a time when there wasn't that much controversy…”
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