"A recent study by the National Federation of Independent Business found that raising the minimum wage to $15 would destroy 1.6 million jobs and 615,000 able-bodied individuals would be pushed out of the work force by the year 2029."
"This is an empty promise, the likes of which we have not heard since the famous health care sales job of 2009: If you like the plan you have, you can keep it."
"The far-left has begun to call for extreme social policies that were, until recently, considered too radical for the mainstream."
"Liberal activists are trying to sell a radical minimum wage hike as a benefit to working class Americans."
"What do these States' experiments tell us about what would happen in other regions of the country if a mandate to impose a $15 minimum wage around the country was enacted?"
"I do think some Democrats, and maybe one on this committee, understands the free market, how it really works and the opportunities it creates for Americans from every walk of life."
"Over the last several years, the far-left has begun to call for extreme social policies that were, until recently, considered too radical for the mainstream."
"In your view, is increasing the minimum wage to $15 an anti-poverty policy?"
"Are you concerned that more than doubling the Federal minimum wage would reverse these positive trends for workers and the economy?"
"I want to add my thanks to all the witnesses who have been here today."
"it is a bipartisan piece of legislation. It is something that all of us who care about how money is being spent in the government should want to get done in a hurry."