The President's News Conference
01/07/1946
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Let me remind you of some of the things the Republicans have been saying about this New Deal.
One of them is the Fair Labor Standards Act which, for the first time in our history, set a floor under wages in the form of a minimum wage.
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This Republican Congress tried it again in 1947, but it didn't work because they couldn't carry out their program.