[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 117 (Friday, August 2, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE FINALLY COMES TO HOUSE FLOOR

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, as I prepare to retire I understand 
there are some wags around here who keep saying that will be a big 
mouth to fill. But this is a day when I am very proud of my big mouth 
and I am very proud of the results that we have seen, because the 
Republicans kept fiddling while the average working American got 
burned. There was no way they wanted to deal with the minimum wage, 
absolutely no way. And for 18 months they stalled.
  Well, big mouths like myself went to work, and today we get to put 
out the fire. Today we get to finally get the minimum wage up here, 
which is so terribly important for so many mothers who are out there 
working on it. The majority of the people and more than a majority 
under minimum wage are women.
  This is indeed a good day, and I wish everybody would put their big 
mouth to work on the right thing. When they finally do, they finally 
cave.

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