Jim McDermott actually said...

If you pass a law, even the threat of passing the law, under the Clinton administration, suddenly health care costs kind of leveled off.

McDermott discusses the impact of legislative actions on healthcare costs.

02/12/2013

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Anyone who is working full-time in this country should have a wage that is at least at the poverty level.

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.

I think that, you know, we have to look at what we have accomplished. We have reduced the deficit by half.

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