[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 45 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E477]
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                     GIVE IT BACK, GIVE IT ALL BACK

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                        HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 27, 1996

  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, the minimum wage was last increased in 
1991 by a lousy 65 cents an hour. That works out to a lousy $1,300 a 
year.
  Since 1991, Members of Congress have increased their salaries by a 
whopping $37,000. That's 30 times the raise minimum wage workers have 
received.
  In fact, that $37,000 raise is more than quadruple what a minimum 
wage worker earns in total all year. The annual salary of a minimum 
wageworker is $8,800.
  If Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich want to block the proposed 1996 minimum 
wage increase, I have a suggestion, give back the $37,000.

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