[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 741-742]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  IT'S TIME TO RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE

  (Mr. AL GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. It's time to raise the minimum wage.
  Mr. Speaker, I love America, and I want to make real the ideal 
expressed in the Pledge of Allegiance, liberty and justice for all. 
Justice not just for those who make more in a day than a minimum wage 
worker makes in a year, not just for those who are in, those who are in 
charge, in control, included, but justice also for those who are out, 
who are left out of the economic recovery, who are without health 
insurance, who are locked out of an apartment because they cannot 
afford to pay rent.
  Mr. Speaker, in the final analysis, the justness of America will not 
be determined by how we treat millionaires in the suites of life but, 
rather, how we

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treat minimum wage workers in the streets of life.

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