Political Quotes

“if Newt Gingrich and the radical right Republicans want to do something for the working poor, then let us have a minimum wage bill. Yesterday some of their Members stood in the well on that side and said, ``Well, we have already proposed to take care of the working poor through our tax bill that we passed last year, and the President vetoed it.'' Nothing is further from the truth. There is not one penny, not one penny, in that tax bill for the working poor. You take a two-wage earner family with two children, both working at minimum wage. They do not pay any taxes. There is nothing in your tax bill that helps them. The only way that we can help the working poor get out of poverty, the only way we can help people get off welfare, is to increase the minimum wage. Why, Mr. Speaker, do you and the radical right Republicans refuse to permit the Democrats to bring a minimum wage bill to this floor? I say to you, let us do it now.”