[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 163 (Saturday, December 17, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H12055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, Congress is about to go home in a few 
days either today, tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, sometime in the next few 
days, and this House, again, has failed to increase the minimum wage.
  There are large numbers of people in this country, people with 
children, often single mothers, sometimes, not usually, adults in their 
20s and 30s and 40s who make $5.15 an hour. The Senate finally 
increased the minimum wage. The House is going to go home sometime in 
the next few days having failed to even bring up to a vote an increase 
in the minimum wage.
  Since this House floor session began about 16 minutes ago, in that 
time, a minimum wage worker would have earned about $1.10 or $1.15. A 
CEO of a Fortune 500 company in this same 16 minutes would have earned 
about $1,500. Mr. Speaker, we can do a lot better in this body than we 
have done this year.

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