Political Quotes

“Members of the House, yes, it is a great day for the people of this country who are the working poor. That is right, they are the working poor. They are the lowest level in the financial status that we have, but they work just as hard as my colleagues and I do and everybody else does. This should have been done a year ago. That meant that those people would have been able to buy shoes for the kids. Not at the retail store, but no, at the yard sale, at the Salvation Army secondhand store. I challenge all of my colleagues to realize that these people who work every day for the minimum wage are not able to live like my colleagues and I. My colleagues must realize that these people scrape and save to just make ends meet every day. I challenge those that are going to vote against this bill to take this month of August and go out and visit with some of the people in their home areas that earn the minimum wage and find out how they have to live and how my colleagues wanted them not to have that minimum wage increase.”