Alma Adams

I guess I feel a little bit like Fannie Lou Hamer. Sick and tired of being sick and tired of the ongoing inequality.

I would say to you, Mr. Scafidi, if you think this is just about salaries, that is not how this works.

If you truly value education and you truly value teachers, then why are we continuing to take away and saying: But we appreciate you.

We need to make public education a priority.

King, please don't ever apologize for being passionate about children.

I ran because I was an angry parent, and today I am an angry grandparent about what is not going on that should be going on.

Would you categorize Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 as a regulation?

Would religious private schools that accept vouchers be allowed to ignore any of these regulations on the basis of religious freedom?

Too often we view economic progress as a zero-sum game where if workers win, employers lose.

The question is not does it make sense to increase the minimum wage to $15. The question is who in their right mind would disagree?

just raising, increasing the minimum wage in my State of Florida to $10.10 per hour would decrease SNAP expenditures by $290 million.

Workers should not be forced to work for poverty-level wages, regardless of where they live.

If we pass the Raise the Age Act, close to 40 million workers would receive a raise.

I would go for the 30. It was fortunate--it was unfortunate, though, that hearing was canceled because we had hard-working folks from many of our service industries in Washington that day, all fighting for $15 because they know that $15 is…

Working hard is not enough if you don't make enough, and on 7.25, you can't survive.

Everybody has to eat, and we heard this morning from laborers, workers who are in the fast food business and other businesses who have a difficult time trying to make the ends meet for their family.

The evidence clearly demonstrates the Raise the Wage Act is a reasonable proposal that would lift millions of workers out of poverty.

Equality makes dignity, and dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts throughout the week, and I am quoting Dr. Martin Luther King on that.

I think we need to take note of the lost opportunity cost of not increasing a minimum wage here.

This bill puts money directly into the hands of those who are most likely to spend it in their communities.

Shouldn't you have the right to live out your best life, to live the future that you want for yourself and not this by-default position that you are placed in because you are attempting to survive?

Thank you for holding this important hearing. It is my pleasure to be here as we discuss a critical topic that impacts our nation's veterans and identify ways to improve their access to the federal contracting marketplace and…

This presents a significant conflict of interest and inflicts harm on veteran-owned small businesses.

Unfortunately, the President's infrastructure plan unveiled earlier this year would fall woefully short of this goal.

It cuts more than $168 billion from existing transportation and infrastructure programs, and it allows large companies and foreign investors to toll our roads and bridges.