Brandon Williams: “Perhaps the most interesting element in this debate is how one-sided it is. As my colleagues here and I, similar…”

“Perhaps the most interesting element in this debate is how one-sided it is. As my colleagues here and I, similar viewers, know, the reason our good friend from Pennsylvania has to stand up and keep granting himself 15 seconds and half a minute is because he cannot get any Republicans to come over here and support him on this, or very, very few, and some who have come over and supported him on it are actually against the minimum wage and have said so. Look, the American people understand this. This is a very partisan issue. It has been for almost 60 years. Republicans have been against the minimum wage since it was first created in the late 1930's, and they have been against it each time it has come up since. Oh, if we bring the bill publicly out on the floor, as we have done this afternoon, the Republicans are back in the cloakroom, and if they finally have to vote on it, usually enough of them will join Democrats that we can get it passed. But Americans are not fooled on this issue. They know that Republicans are against the minimum wage and Democrats are for it.”