[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3377]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       LET'S GIVE AMERICA A RAISE

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, the Federal minimum wage has failed to keep up 
with the cost of living, leaving far too many families on the brink of 
poverty. For millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet on the 
current minimum wage, times have gotten harder and harder.
  Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would be especially 
important for the thousands of working women currently trying to pull 
their families out of poverty. Two-thirds of minimum wage workers are 
women. Nearly a third of the families headed by a single female are 
living in poverty.
  This is wrong. No mother who works hard at a full-time job to provide 
for her children and family should be living in poverty. Our success as 
a nation hinges on the success of women. When women succeed, America 
succeeds.
  That is why I have just signed a discharge petition to bring a bill 
to this floor so that we can vote on raising the Federal minimum wage 
to $10.10 for all hardworking Americans, including our mothers and 
daughters.
  I think it is time. Let's give America a raise.

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