[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12334-12335]
[From the U.S. 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 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

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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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