Political Quotes

“once again I rise to support the minimum wage. People will tell you that while this is just an issue about young teenagers, that is absolutely untrue. Seventy-five percent of the people who make the minimum wage are adults. Fifty-eight percent of them are women, and they head households. Do you know how much you make a year off the minimum wage? $8,400 a year, doing some of the dirtiest, most unpleasant, hardest work we have in this country. Now, I cannot understand why we cannot increase the minimum wage. There are bipartisan majorities in both Houses willing to support a $1 increase in the minimum wage. So why will the Republican leadership not bring it up? The fact is that the Republican leadership makes over $100,000 a year. People on minimum wage make $8,400 a year. Is it too much to ask to give these people, these women, these hard-working Americans, a raise of $1? I do not think so. Again, I reiterate, we ought to raise the minimum wage.”