Harold Volkmer: “the House and Senate have passed a minimum wage bill, but I want to let my colleagues in on a little secret. The Speaker…”

“the House and Senate have passed a minimum wage bill, but I want to let my colleagues in on a little secret. The Speaker is not going to let it become law. Our dictator, Speaker Gingrich, has decided that along with the majority Members of the extreme right in the Republican Party and Members of this House, that people working for minimum wage in my district and all over this Nation do not need this year an increase of 45 cents an hour. Mr. Speaker, they are working right now today, while these Members up here are enjoying all their large incomes, et cetera. They say, Speaker Gingrich and the extreme right Republicans say that my people should not get 45 cents an hour more. Now is that right? No, it is not right. Why do we not have a minimum wage bill? Why? Because Speaker Gingrich has decided that he is going to kowtow to the special interests that give large funds to their campaign funds.”