[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 55 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3826]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, once again I rise to support the minimum wage. 
People will tell you that while this is just an issue about young 
teenagers, that is absolutely untrue. Seventy-five percent of the 
people who make the minimum wage are adults. Fifty-eight percent of 
them are women, and they head households.
  Do you know how much you make a year off the minimum wage? $8,400 a 
year, doing some of the dirtiest, most unpleasant, hardest work we have 
in this country.
  Now, I cannot understand why we cannot increase the minimum wage. 
There are bipartisan majorities in both Houses willing to support a $1 
increase in the minimum wage. So why will the Republican leadership not 
bring it up?
  The fact is that the Republican leadership makes over $100,000 a 
year. People on minimum wage make $8,400 a year. Is it too much to ask 
to give these people, these women, these hard-working Americans, a 
raise of $1? I do not think so.
  Again, I reiterate, we ought to raise the minimum wage.

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