Political Quotes

“I would just like to say that youth workers--we have heard about youth workers--should not be paid less for the same work than anyone else. Several of my colleagues have pointed out that there may be a $9 billion loss in income. According to the CBO, that comes from families making more than $232,000 a year. Families making less than that will get an increase in pay. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank all of my colleagues, including members of the Committee on Education and Labor and Representatives across the Nation who have been instrumental in advancing this legislation. But most of all, I want to recognize the workers in communities across the country who stood up and demanded a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. There are some of them with us today, the Fight for $15 workers, the SEIU workers, and others from across the country. I also want to acknowledge a broad coalition of business support, including Business for a Fair Minimum Wage and the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce. Proposals to increase the minimum wage are always met with the same baseless predictions we have heard today. Opponents cried wolf in the 1930s, and we should not fear the impact of putting money in workers' pockets or, as President Roosevelt said in a fireside chat way back in 1938: ``Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day . . . tell you . . . that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.'' Mr.…”