Frank Pallone: “what a cruel hoax the last speaker from the other side of the aisle is trying to pull on the American people. The choice…”

“what a cruel hoax the last speaker from the other side of the aisle is trying to pull on the American people. The choice here essentially under this rule is either vote for the minimum wage increase for some workers and at the same time eliminate minimum wage protection for probably the vast majority of those 10 million or so Americans that are now receiving the minimum wage, or simply vote the rule down and we will not bring up the minimum wage at all. That is exactly the cruel hoax we are playing on the American people today. What the Republican leadership is doing is setting up this bill for defeat because they know that, if they have this exemption under the Goodling amendment that is going to take out so many people from any minimum wage protection, they know that the President cannot sign that bill. So they are making it impossible for a real minimum wage increase for the average American worker to be brought up on this floor and to be passed by both Houses and go to the President. It is a hoax because they are opposed to minimum wage protection. They do not care about the little guy.”