Byron Dorgan: “Yesterday, we voted on the minimum wage. There has been a lot of discussion back and forth on the issue of the minimum…”

“Yesterday, we voted on the minimum wage. There has been a lot of discussion back and forth on the issue of the minimum wage, and the opposition to the minimum wage from some is that it will cost jobs; from others, that there ought not be a minimum wage. There has been a lot of controversy about it. The Congress I think in its good judgment decided after about 7 years that another adjustment should be made; the last adjustment was made in the latter part of 1989. But we will still have some discussion about it because there needs to be a conference and, I expect, more debate in the Chamber about the minimum wage.”