Jim McDermott actually said...

It strikes me that, year after year, the basket of goods that people can buy has dropped over the course of time with the minimum wage.

You are witnessing a rare occurrence, I think, in the modern-day Congress, a Democrat and a Republican working together on something.

The issue that we are dealing with here is not Democrat, is not Republican. It is kids that are ground up in the system.

And the efforts to interrupt that, I think, are what we are really here to talk about today.