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Keith Ellison: The minimum wage is a good thing. We all three of us feel good about it, and we all three are members also on the…

On the recordJuly 26, 2007
The minimum wage is a good thing. We all three of us feel good about it, and we all three are members also on the Financial Services Committee, so we are focused on these issues. But there have been some other things that have happened here in this Democratic Congress that have really helped improve the lives of average working Americans. I have in mind the bill that was passed recently, the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. Is there anything in there that you think the American people ought to know about or the Speaker ought to know about?
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Keith Ellison
Minnesota

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Discussing the positive impact of recent legislation on working Americans.

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