[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5386]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXPLOITING PEOPLE

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, today we are going to get a 
vote on the minimum wage, but unfortunately under the amendments 
offered by Speaker Gingrich and the Republicans, they will repeal and 
take away the benefits of the minimum wage for up to 10 million 
American workers. For the students who work while going to school, for 
people who work all day in the sun to put food on our table, for the 
people who work in sweatshops, for people who wait on us in restaurants 
and for the disabled who are trying to earn a living and support 
themselves with their disabling condition, 10 million American workers 
will find that they will no longer have the protection of the Fair 
Labor Standards Act and the minimum wage.
  Newt Gingrich is once again going to bring back the ability of 
employers to exploit children in the workplace, to exploit women in 
sweatshops, to exploit the disabled in sheltered workshops. This is not 
what the American people want. The American people want an increase in 
the minimum wage so those individuals who have chosen work over welfare 
will have the ability to support their families, not to exploit those 
people.

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