[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5388]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       REPUBLICANS AND THE MINIMUM WAGE--THEY OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole oppose 
an increase in the minimum wage. The Republican leader has said he will 
fight the minimum wage with every fiber in his being and the Republican 
whip has said in regard to families living on the minimum wage, they do 
not exist.
  Today, the Republicans in this House are pulling one of the dirtiest 
and most despicable deceptions I have seen in my 10 years in this 
House. They say they support an increase in the minimum wage, but today 
they will vote to repeal the minimum wage for nearly two-thirds of the 
people earning that wage. That is right, repeal the minimum wage.
  Unbelievable, Mr. Speaker. Extreme in the extreme. You ought to be 
ashamed of yourselves, Mr. Speaker, you ought to be ashamed.

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