Brandon Williams: “I commend them, because I know their leadership is 100 percent against their position. I encourage all Republicans to…”

“I commend them, because I know their leadership is 100 percent against their position. I encourage all Republicans to join this small band of courageous and correct Republicans. I encourage all Republicans to join the Democrats that are in favor of the minimum wage. I encourage all Republicans in the House to understand that today the value of the minimum wage is $3.70, not $4.25, but $3.70 in purchase power. But even if it was $4.25, I would remind all of my colleagues that we earn more every 15 days than those workers earn all year. That is, we earn in 15 days on our congressional salaries what minimum wage workers, going to work every day, earn all year long. Surely the Congressional Republicans can come down here and help to increase the wage of those low-income Americans. Mr. Speaker, today in this country one child out of four lives in poverty. Yet 60 percent of those kids live in a household where one or the other parent works. We should raise their mom's minimum wage. If we want mom and dad off of welfare, make the job worth going to. Raise the minimum wage.”