Dean Phillips actually said...

"The fact that a single mother in America can work a 40-hour week at a $7.25 minimum wage and live below the poverty line is as appalling as it is embarrassing to our nation."

"Now I trust that we all agree that representation begins with listening and we should afford small business owners, just like Ken, the opportunity to be heard before we proceed with the implementation..."

"But if that is at the expense of 1.4 million lost jobs, and the likelihood of many thousands of business closures as the CBO and economists anticipate, we should investigate, we should deliberate, and..."

"I am troubled that we are adding the minimum wage policy to this COVID relief package through reconciliation."