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Burgess Owens: We would have to go up to $6.25 an hour. If we put it on an index inflation now it should be at $6.25 instead of $4.25.

On the recordMay 1, 1996
We would have to go up to $6.25 an hour. If we put it on an index inflation now it should be at $6.25 instead of $4.25.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Discussing minimum wage adjustments during a House floor debate.

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