Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, is it not amazing? I hope the American people have been listening to this discussion. We have heard from the other side today that yesterday we had welfare reform that was a bipartisan effort because 98 Democrats supported it, but the last speaker did not support it. Then on this side we had 93 who supported minimum wage, but that is a Democrat program. Is that not amazing? What I want to remind the American people is that for 2 years this minority was in the majority, they had the majority in the House, they had the majority in the Senate, and they had the White House. Not one word in committee was ever mentioned about minimum wage, not one word. Oh, but thanks for the conversion: An election year conversion. We are happy to have you converted. It is good to have you with us. But nevertheless, we realized from day one, as the President said, because he is the only one who mentioned minimum wage during the 2 years when they had this big majority, and what did the President say? 'Hiking the minimum wage is the wrong way to raise the incomes of low-wage workers.' That is what the President said, the only thing mentioned about minimum wage. We knew on our side that we had to do more than just raise the minimum wage if we were going to help American workers, if we were going to help those most in need.…”