Albert Russell Wynn: “as they say in sports, ``It ain't over till it's over.'' ``It ain't over till the fat lady sings.'' Bipartisan…”

“as they say in sports, ``It ain't over till it's over.'' ``It ain't over till the fat lady sings.'' Bipartisan majorities in both Houses have passed the minimum wage increase which would help 11.8 million Americans, 40 percent of whom are sole breadwinners and 58 percent of whom are women. But it ain't over. Because special interests and Newt Gingrich and the Republican leadership are already in the back room working out delays. They do not want to appoint a conference committee to move this bill to the President's desk despite the fact that 80 percent of the American public, American taxpayers, want an increase in the minimum wage. They are saying if we do not get our special interest provision in the health care bill, you cannot have minimum wage. That is the way it goes around here now, and it is flat-out wrong. The people deserve better. The people deserve minimum wage increases and a clean health care bill. Would somebody give the fat lady a sheet of music? We need to pass this legislation. We do not need to knuckle under to special interests.”