Steve Rothman: “Address in some way or another and improve the situation where we now have 47 million uninsured.”

I thank the gentleman. So can you imagine, Madam Speaker, they slashed IRS collectors from people who owed taxes, slashed the tax collectors, and wanted to privatize it and pay eight times more to their friends in private industry to do…

tomorrow's headlines are going to read ``hostage taken''. And you know what they are going to mean? The increase in the minimum wage was taken hostage by the Republican majority. They have taken the increase in the minimum wage hostage…

I did want to point out that good people have not stood silently during all of this. Both the New Jersey State Bar Association and the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers have withdrawn from the National High School Mock Trial…

the distinguished chairman dares me to go back and tell my people. I am going to say, the Republicans will not give you the minimum wage increase unless we give $800 billion to the super-rich. They will say, don't do it, Steve. We will…