"Transportation infrastructure is powerfully important because this is how we help our economy move forward."
"You know, you have had amazing growth, gone from zero hard rail to miles and miles of a system in 30 years."
"Without a transportation infrastructure or with a decaying transportation infrastructure, the whole economy is in trouble."
"We've heard today how the deck is stacked against women, particularly working moms, and about how it's getting worse."
"Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would save $46 billion in food stamps and would lift a lot of women, obviously, out of poverty."
"Minimum wage workers have not received an increase in their wages in 7 years."
"We could change this if Congress would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour."
"As you know, women hold a disproportionate number of low-wage jobs, making up about 76 percent of the workers in the 10 biggest low-wage job categories in America."
"It's time to talk about where we could make changes that would help families."
"Actually, I should add to that people who are trying to work two jobs and how impossible that becomes for many."
"if we would raise the minimum wage, it would be good for the economy, that it would reduce Federal spending at least to the tune of $46 billion, that it would affect one in five working mothers, and f..."