Harry Reid: “I am not surprised. I am not surprised. We have the audacity on this side of the aisle to ask that the minimum wage be…”

“I am not surprised. I am not surprised. We have the audacity on this side of the aisle to ask that the minimum wage be increased from $5.15 to something more. Why, these people who draw minimum wage, think about it, if they work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, and don't get any time off for vacation, they can make the grand sum, working a whole year, of $10,700. What pigs. They want to get that much money? I say we should recognize the people drawing minimum wage are not a bunch of high school kids working in a fast food chain. The fact of the matter is 60 percent of the people drawing minimum wage are women. For the majority of those women, that is the only money they get for them and their families. I cannot imagine that we have had such a difficult time bringing up something so important to the American people, the minimum wage, to increase it from $5.15 an hour, maybe increasing it $1, maybe increasing it $1.50. I know that is pushing the envelope a lot to think this body would take up something as unimportant as people getting an increase in the minimum wage. No. What we should do is worry about four people, four people, one of whom makes a half a million dollars a year downtown. Then we can also worry about other people, those other three who, between them, make about a half a million dollars. I have no understanding in my heart how the majority can continually deny us the opportunity to do something about the minimum wage.”