[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7267]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               WHY THERE WILL BE NO MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, the House and Senate have passed a minimum 
wage bill, but I want to let my colleagues in on a little secret. The 
Speaker is not going to let it become law.
  Our dictator, Speaker Gingrich, has decided that along with the 
majority Members of the extreme right in the Republican Party and 
Members of this House, that people working for minimum wage in my 
district and all over this Nation do not need this year an increase of 
45 cents an hour.
  Mr. Speaker, they are working right now today, while these Members up 
here are enjoying all their large incomes, et cetera. They say, Speaker 
Gingrich and the extreme right Republicans say that my people should 
not get 45 cents an hour more. Now is that right? No, it is not right.
  Why do we not have a minimum wage bill? Why? Because Speaker Gingrich 
has decided that he is going to kowtow to the special interests that 
give large funds to their campaign funds.

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