Sherrod Brown: “Congress is about to go home in a few days either today, tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, sometime in the next few days, and…”

“Congress is about to go home in a few days either today, tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, sometime in the next few days, and this House, again, has failed to increase the minimum wage. There are large numbers of people in this country, people with children, often single mothers, sometimes, not usually, adults in their 20s and 30s and 40s who make $5.15 an hour. The Senate finally increased the minimum wage. The House is going to go home sometime in the next few days having failed to even bring up to a vote an increase in the minimum wage. Since this House floor session began about 16 minutes ago, in that time, a minimum wage worker would have earned about $1.10 or $1.15. A CEO of a Fortune 500 company in this same 16 minutes would have earned about $1,500. Mr. Speaker, we can do a lot better in this body than we have done this year. ____________________”