[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 5 (Wednesday, January 10, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H259]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               RIGHTING A WRONG FOR OUR WORKING FAMILIES

  (Mr. WILSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WILSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise to say that what will be 
going on today is righting a wrong for working families in America, and 
that is raising the minimum wage.
  It has been a full 10 years since President Clinton was able to raise 
the minimum wage to help the people who work for us on a daily basis. 
With all the increased costs we have today, of housing, of health care, 
it is just impossible for people to be able to make it. In Ohio, we 
have seen people suffer because the minimum wage has not been relevant 
to what is going on in their life.
  Many years ago, Henry Ford was criticized for saying that he paid his 
workers better than others, and his logic was his workers would be able 
to buy the cars that they manufactured. We want the people today to be 
able to have the right to be able to buy the things that they need, 
certainly for their families. So raising the minimum wage is the right 
thing to do.

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