Political Quotes

“I want to thank Chairman Bobby Scott for his incredible leadership on this bill, and I rise in strong support of the Raise the Wage Act. Mr. Speaker, I would remind the previous speaker and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen) that we are proposing precisely zero more regulation than exists. In fact, the Federal Government has set a minimum wage in this country since 1938, all the great growth years of this economy. We are just saying that the rate should be sensible. I came to Washington to raise the standard of living for working people in Michigan's Ninth District and all across this country, and that is exactly what this bill does. Working a full-time job should guarantee that you can provide for your family, and a $7.25-an-hour minimum wage doesn't cut it, especially while worker productivity has increased exponentially, and executive salaries have skyrocketed. The gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) said the CBO score said a minimum of 1.3 million jobs would be lost. I want to correct the record. They said a minimum of zero would be. The median projection is that 1.3 million might be. Mr. Speaker, I want to remind all of my colleagues that in 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that 7,769,000 American workers were working multiple jobs because one job didn't cut it, it didn't pay enough for them. And that is almost certainly an undercount, according to all experts.…”