[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 102 (Friday, July 28, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H6022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE

  (Ms. SOLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. SOLIS. Good morning, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to talk 
about the Republican leadership and the fact that they are ignoring the 
needs of millions of Americans who right now are making minimum wage. 
They haven't seen an increase in over 10 years.
  They are holding the pay raise for American workers hostage by adding 
partisan poison pills that will damage and ruin a clean minimum-wage 
bill that the Democrats support.
  Americans deserve a straight up-or-down vote on increasing the 
minimum wage for working families, most of whom are women, single head 
of household with children.
  Mr. Speaker, our constituents know that you can't fool them. They 
know that the Republicans' attempt to pass a minimum-wage bill that 
includes harmful, unrelated legislation is just not going to pass this 
House.
  Come November, Democrats are going to stand up, and they are going to 
fight with us, and we are going to take back this House.
  I urge all my colleagues to reject the proposed Republican poison 
bills and allow a clean vote up or down on the minimum-wage bill.

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