Cleo Fields

I mean, almost 60 percent, about 57 percent of the people who earn minimum wage, are female. These are the people who wake up every morning and go to work. I think we also, whenever we talk about the minimum wage debate, if you are for…

I would only suggest to the gentleman that I think a minimum wage is the right thing. Now, lastly, finally, the gentleman stated that it gives employees some sense of knowing that the Government will reward you for an increase versus the…

Realistically speaking, you have to do it based on inflation. You have to take inflation into account. I would never say that the minimum wage of this country should be $25 an hour now, henceforth and forevermore. That would not even make…

The American workers, have not received a minimum wage increase since 1991, and I am sure that the gentleman would agree with me that the cost of living between 1991 and 1996 did not go down but it went up. As a matter of fact, inflation…

I am asking you as a human being. As either. As a human being, do you think that this Congress should have a standard in terms of a wage when a person enters the work force?

My assertion and my belief is people did not lose jobs when we raised the minimum wage the 17 times that we did raise the minimum wage in the past, and young people were not thrown out of the work market, which, and I will be quite honest…

If the gentleman would just answer a few questions for me so I can understand exactly what mode of operation the gentleman is in in terms of his philosophy on the minimum wage. Does the gentleman believe that there should be in fact a…

The gentleman mentioned diversity, and mentioned how the whole purpose of the Voting Rights Act or one of the purposes of the Voting Rights Act was to integrate the political system, such as the U.S. Congress and State legislatures across…

Today I take special pride in recognizing a very outstanding constituent of mine. She is a 19-year-old professional tennis player from Lafayette, LA. I speak of no other than Chanda Rubin, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Edward D. Rubin. I am…

We entered into a contract with the American people. We entered into that contract in 1994 in this hall, in this Congress. We told the American people that we were going to fund this program and that program, meaningful programs so that we…

So, of the 535 Members of the U.S. Congress, which would include the House and the Senate, is the gentleman telling me there are only 40 African-American Members in the entire U.S. Congress today?

So before the election of this one African- American, who I assume is Carol Moseley-Braun whom the gentleman was referring to, prior to her election were there any African Americans since Reconstruction in the U.S. Senate?