09/09/2014
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"I hope this Subcommittee, the full Committee, and this Congress will turn its attention to what many of us would consider incredibly urgent priorities of the American people."
"67,000 of my constituents would receive a pay raise if we increased the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour."
"I think that I wish that we had a hearing on some of the other things that are pressing about equal pay for equal work, about raising the minimum wage, about conditions in the workplace."
"The backlog is not going to be a big deal. We can fix that one very quickly, I think."