[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5387]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ROLLING BACK THE CLOCK

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, the entire Gingrich-Dole Congress that we have 
seen for the last year and a half has been about one thing: rolling 
back the clock. Whether it is on Medicare, the environment, educational 
assistance that we give from the Federal Government, it has been about 
rolling back the clock.
  Here we go again. Now under the guise of raising the minimum wage, 
which is at a 40-year low in purchasing power, they are in fact going 
to repeal the minimum wage for millions of American workers.

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  Just think of the cynicism that reflects, the opportunity of helping 
people who are trying to get ahead, people who are playing by the rules 
and trying to stay off welfare. They are using that as an opportunity 
to take millions off the protection of the minimum wage.
  We only need to remember what the Gingrich-Dole leader of the 
Congress said. ``I will resist a minimum wage increase with every fiber 
of my being,'' he said. And do my colleagues know what? What they are 
doing today makes me sick.

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