[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 82 (Thursday, June 22, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H4495-H4496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CALLING FOR AN INCREASE IN 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, this week again, Mr. Speaker, the 
House and the Senate failed to increase

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the minimum wage in our country. For 10 years the minimum wage has been 
stuck at $5.15 an hour. In my State of Ohio, if we would raise the 
minimum wage to $6.85 an hour, as many people want to through a ballot 
initiative, 500,000 individual Ohioans with 200,000 children in those 
households would get a raise. It would help their standard of living. 
It would put more money into our economy. It would be good for our 
State and good for all of us.
  This Congress, instead of passing a minimum wage increase, continues 
to give tax breaks to people who make more than $1 million a year. They 
get hundreds of millions of dollars. The CEO of Exxon makes $18,000 an 
hour. A woman in Girard, Ohio, who fills her tank with gasoline from 
ExxonMobil that lives on the minimum wage makes $11,000 a year.

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