Political Quotes

“I want to say there is no clearer issue in my opinion that defines the difference between Democrats and Republicans that raising the minimum wage. It has been clear. We on the Democratic side have tried for months and months to try to get a clean minimum wage raise, a lousy 90 cents an hour from $4.25 to $5.15. What have we gotten from the majority, the Republicans from the other side of the aisle? We have gotten stalling, delaying, all kinds of tactics. Now we finally get a bill and we have all kinds of things to hurt workers rather than to help workers, to exempt people from the minimum wage, all kinds of tricks and all kinds of nonsense. We asked for a clean minimum wage bill, a clean bill that would clearly say that the minimum wage ought to be raised from $4.25 to $5.15 an hour. Eighty percent of the American people agree that the minimum wage ought to be raised, including 70 percent of Republicans. But the Republican leadership has been against it. And they have not allowed us to have a clean up or down vote on the floor.”