03/12/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"A fair minimum wage ensures that someone who chooses to work... is not consigned to live in desperate poverty."
"These are the Americans who serve our meals, pour our drinks, staff our hotels, cut our hair, and wash our cars. They deserve better."
"We need a level playing field and that includes our tipped workers."
"We can make work a way out of poverty again by raising the minimum wage--one of our Nation's simplest and most effective means to lift working families out of poverty."