Political Quotes

“this debate about the minimum wage is about honoring work. But this issue about procedural gimmickry is about honoring one's word. The new majority has insisted that they would not bottle up bills that had popular support by using procedural gimmicks. But here we have a situation where the majority does not represent the majority. That is, everyone knows and everyone has asserted that if there were a vote on the minimum wage, it would pass. So, since the majority of the Members of the Congress would vote to raise the minimum wage, the Republican majority, not showing much maturity in this matter, has decided to use procedural gimmicks to stand in the way of allowing the Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, to have a clean, honest vote on raising the minimum wage. Now, the people of our country deserve better from the majority. That is, if my colleagues are against the minimum wage, then they should vote against it, speak to the Members of the Congress on their point of view. But they should not hide behind procedural gimmicks to avoid us having a vote.”