low wages have been one of the reasons that we have hollowed out America's middle class.

We have to do better than this for our children.

When college costs were a lot lower.

Twenty years, and you are still paying for this.

I want to say thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to go fight about student loans for a little while now.

And I think you hit a big part of that, Ms. Traub, when you said, 'Because the workers do not have any power.'

There is no issue that is more important than what we are discussing today.

I am a big supporter of unions. I am. But raising the minimum wage is a far more economically efficient way to generate growth.

I was on the floor talking about the approaching increase in student loan interest rates and how Congress needs to take action now.

This is a big ticking time bomb because people can get out of other kinds of debt through bankruptcy, but as you know, they cannot get out of student debt.

State schools, they were supported back then.

If I was God and could do anything I wanted, I would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over 3 years, starting tomorrow.