Angie Craig: “Frankly, the adverse wage issue was one of the more contentious, for a variety of reasons--first of all, because…”

“Frankly, the adverse wage issue was one of the more contentious, for a variety of reasons--first of all, because producers saw it as being complicated with a lot of requirements other than just a wage, and obviously employment saw it as an advantage but limited. As a result, we were able to agree to shove it back. As I say, that rarely happens in American history, to actually by law push the wage scale back but to do so with the understanding that we would get equity and fairness through the approach that the Senator has outlined. That was the approach we used. A coalition of well over 500, including agriculture, a lot of agricultural producers.”