Melvin Watt: “today we are going to see the rest of the story, the rest of this extreme agenda that the Republican leadership has been…”

“today we are going to see the rest of the story, the rest of this extreme agenda that the Republican leadership has been playing out all this term of Congress. We have seen it in Medicare, we have seen it in an erosion of occupational safety, we have seen it in an effort to allow the big cats to raid pension plans, we have seen it in wage and hour laws changes, and today we see the rest of the story: They are coming today to try to do away with the minimum wage. Now they are talking about giving a minimum wage increase, but the truth of the matter is this bill will attempt to repeal the minimum wage for three-fourths, 75 percent, in fact, of the companies in this country, and that is outrageous and unacceptable and extreme. The rest of the iceberg will be seen today.”