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Harry Reid: “So for approximately a tenth of that time, we have been blocked from giving these hard-working men and women, who are…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2003
So for approximately a tenth of that time, we have been blocked from giving these hard-working men and women, who are not drawing welfare, they are not out being bums and in gangs, they are people of all ages who want to work for a living and are doing the best they can, they are working at minimum wage, and what we want to do, and we are prevented from doing because of the majority, is simply have a vote to allow these people to have a raise in their minimum wage, their basic wage that these people depend on to make it through life.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Discussing the need for a minimum wage increase during a Senate floor debate.

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