I think the idea that people are struggling in this way, and at the same time, let me say, the countervailing force for us of billionaires who have made $1.2 trillion just in the last year, that contrast, I think, really put that argument…

I think that we understand that the level of crisis that we face requires a solution that matches the scale of that crisis, and I believe that that is what we will be delivering when we pass this through the House and when President Biden…

This will lift families out of poverty. This will lift children. It will cut child poverty by half. This will decrease hunger.

Are we going to give Mitch McConnell veto power over all the things that we have promised to voters across the country?

I’ve already said that I think that the parliamentarian should be overruled.

We can`t go back to voters in two years and say, I`m sorry, you know, a parliamentarian, who is doing her job but she`s unelected, not like the rest of us who are elected to these positions, deliver promises to voters -- we can`t go back…

Voters gave us the House, the Senate and the White House, and we`re either going to have to include things in reconciliation or we`re going to have to reform the filibuster.

I`ve already said that I think that the parliamentarian should be overruled. That is not unprecedented.

Well, he`s just so out of touch with where regular people are and struggling at the bottom end of the wage scale.

I think the parliamentarian should be overruled. That is not unprecedented as you know. Hubert Humphrey did it in 1967 and 1969. Roosevelt did it in 1975. These are certainly unprecedented times, where we could thank the parliamentarian…

We can’t go back to voters and say, I’m sorry, we couldn’t do it because the parliamentarian ruled we couldn’t do it.

We can’t go back as I said to voters and say sorry, the arcane Senate rules told us we couldn’t do what we promised.

This is an urgent moment and this is a minimum wage increase that will lift 27 million Americans out of poverty, many -- excuse me -- 27 -- lift the wages of 27 million people and lift a million people out of poverty.

what are we supposed to tell voters in two years before the midterms? Sorry, we couldn’t pass the fifteen-dollar minimum wage that we promised you because the Senate parliamentarian advised against it? Two-thirds of voters want this done…

It’s been 12 years since the federal minimum wage has been raised as you said.

We can’t allow the advisory opinion of the parliamentarian and Republican obstructionism to stand in the way of the promise we made to voters across this country.

I personally do, and I`ll tell you, it`s because either -- I mean, Democrats made a promise to people across this country, that we were going to raise the minimum wage.

That`s not going to fly.

It is not going to be sufficient for us to just say, well, we tried, sorry. We`ve got to go to the mat with every tool in the toolbox.

One thing, though, the House is going to pass this reconciliation bill with a $15 minimum wage raise in it, so we want to be very clear the house is going to do our jobs, now the Senate needs to do its job.

This is not a radical idea, maybe ten years ago when fast food workers first went on strike calling for $15 in 2012, maybe it was considered radical back then. It is mainstream today.

we fought very hard to keep the minimum wage provision in the bill. It is in the bill.

we won the Senate majority, the House majority and the White House because black, brown, indigenous, poor working people across this country were crying out for help and for a change in leadership.

The fact that nearly a quarter of the immigrant population in the United States is undocumented is a failure of our system.

My colleagues on both sides of the aisle talk about the importance of second chances.