NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Indeed, if the gentleman will yield, I could not help but notice the frequent citation of alleged poll numbers, and just…”

“Indeed, if the gentleman will yield, I could not help but notice the frequent citation of alleged poll numbers, and just the inherent retail action not of sound economic policy but retail politics at work here. Again, and I know the gentleman preceded me by a term here in Washington, but I cannot help but be struck by the false symbolism and the legislating for a therapeutic effect, a symbolic effect that in essence, as we have seen time and again, as we see in reports from the Progressive Policy Institute, as we read in the comments of the President's own Chairman of Economic Advisers, ultimately will kill jobs. It is an incredible irony. Small wonder then that I refer to this alleged minimum wage increase as the job killer act of 1996.”