I want to add my thanks to all the witnesses who have been here today.

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.

Are you concerned that more than doubling the Federal minimum wage would reverse these positive trends for workers and the economy?

In your view, is increasing the minimum wage to $15 an anti-poverty policy?

Liberal activists are trying to sell a radical minimum wage hike as a benefit to working class Americans.

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.

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?

The far-left has begun to call for extreme social policies that were, until recently, considered too radical for the mainstream.

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.

Mandating a $15 minimum wage would have serious negative consequences for students, workers, and small businesses.

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.

Raising the Federal minimum wage to $15 will not help anyone make ends meet. It will redistribute poverty, eliminate jobs, and deeply harm American workers, businesses, and the U.S. economy at large.