[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              MINIMUM WAGE

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, the President is pushing the minimum 
wage. As a business person who runs a business, I know that business 
has been eating raw material cost increases for years. Unable to 
increase prices, business has been needing a reason to raise those 
prices. Along comes the minimum wage. Watch prices. Inflation can eat 
the value of a wage increase in nothing flat.
  Who are we kidding? The minimum wage increase is straight politics.

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