[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 2, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H2813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, all across America and around the 
world, the men and women in the United States military serve us and 
serve us well.
  Would you wonder whether or not their families back home would be 
eligible for an increase in the minimum wage?
  Their families may be blue-collar workers or workers in the service 
industries, and here they are, willing to sacrifice their lives, and we 
here in the United States Congress won't raise the minimum wage to 
$10.10. What an outrage. Even the possible compromise that is 
percolating around has the audacity to suggest that $7.25 is okay, that 
we will raise it just a little bit. But you don't understand the facts: 
$10.10 is over a 3-year period.
  Then today, on the floor of the House, a brilliant idea. H.R. 2575, I 
believe is the name. This one wants to eliminate the opportunity of 
those who are working 30 hours a week to get health care. Across the 
way, in the Budget hearing, the Republican budget is cutting trillions 
of dollars in social services and Medicaid.
  Raise the minimum wage. Take the American people off of social needs, 
social assistance. Stop the tomfoolery of turning this country 
backwards.

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