Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, as I indicated earlier today, after we make the decision to move ahead with raising the minimum wage, then the question comes, what do we do for the most vulnerable, the unskilled, the poorly educated, the dropouts, the teens, the senior citizens, who both need the time and the therapeutic help of a job? Any my response to that was that we do what we have done every time we have raised the minimum wage: We went back to see what it was we could do to alleviate some of the problems that we were going to have in relationship to the unskilled, the poorly educated, the teens, the senior citizens. So every time we have had a minimum wage discussion, every time we have had a minimum wage increase, we have always gone back and made the exceptions and the exemptions, so that the small businesses could provide those jobs for those most in need, and so small businesses could create those jobs that small businesses must create if as a matter of fact we are going to have a growing economy.”