You've made something a national issue again that needs to be a national issue.
That's why I've introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour in three steps...
We have raised our minimum wage. We have stayed above the national minimum wage, and we have done better on employment.
We do not want you to consider helping these people with a waiver. We want you to do it.
if we have established a program and that we do have people who are legally entitled to waivers and they want those waiv...
I totally understand this, because that is the best possible check, is if the individual receives a letter, a phone call...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you very much for holding this hearing today.
The waiver system is a mess.
If we can reduce fraud by getting some increased percentage of people to say, no, this is not accurate, then we have not...
To provide this service for only one card would be enormously expensive.
So, can I just stop you there for just a second, Ms. Vallas.