John Tierney: “We are just pleased that you are focusing some light on this issue, as we have been trying to do for some time.”

At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to our colleague from Oregon, Suzanne Bonamici.

At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado, Jared Polis.

I just know that we have been making a comparison here today that if we could change the committee's function off of trying to usurp a decision by the board that hasn't been made yet, we could talk about raising the minimum wage, which in…

At this time, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), who is the ranking member of the committee and, as the chairman of the committee has said, is no stranger to this issue. He has been a…