Don Nickles: “I rise in opposition to some of the statements that were made by our colleagues from Massachusetts, who said we should…”

“I rise in opposition to some of the statements that were made by our colleagues from Massachusetts, who said we should increase the minimum wage. I will make a couple of editorial comments because I do not know that we need to debate it at this time, but I feel a need to respond to some of the statements made on the floor of the Senate. The implication was that if we do not increase the minimum wage, we do not care about low-income people. I find that to be offensive. That attempts to show that maybe those of us who oppose raising the minimum wage are not only insensitive, but we do not care about poor people or something. I disagree with that. Maybe we should turn that argument around. Maybe those of us who care more about poor people should increase the minimum wage to $10, $15, or $20 an hour. I would like for everybody in America to make $20 an hour. But is the proper way to do it to pass a law that says it is against the law for you to have a job if you do not make that?”