Political Quotes

“I said I was going to search the Record to determine if any similar speeches were made by his colleagues on his side. Do you understand? To see whether or not eloquent speeches of that type were made in favor of a minimum wage. But they could not, because the President of the United States was against the minimum wage, the Secretary of Labor was against the minimum wage elevation, and so were other functionaries of the Democrat Party. Now, seeing that the Republicans have taken over in 1994, all of a sudden they see it as a grand scheme, do the Democrats, to embarrass the Republicans about a minimum wage controversy, which is not that great a controversy, yet it sounds good and makes people feel good to know that the Democrats, 2 years after they were in the majority, are in favor of a minimum wage. What has happened to change the President's mind and all of a sudden he is an advocate of the elevation of the minimum wage, to the Secretary of Labor and to those on that side of the aisle who all of a sudden are minimum wage advocates? Meanwhile, we have a bill on the floor, the one this rule governs, about trying to bring better government into the selection of U.S. marshals.”