[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4356]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   FALLING UNEMPLOYMENT AND FAIR PAY

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight an issue impacting 
constituents in my district and all across the Nation. Recently, 
statistics were published lauding Texas' falling unemployment rate. 
Articles say that Texans are finding good jobs.
  I want to rise today to speak on behalf of those that have a hard 
time making it each month. Many of these so-called good paying jobs, 
after working 40 hours a week, pay about $15,000 a year. Sometimes 
these hardworking Americans have to work two or three jobs just to make 
it at the end of the month.
  Mr. Speaker, the truth is that Texas families are hurting and 
struggling every day just to put food on the table and to put clothes 
on their kids' backs.
  I was talking to a lady at Luby's just the other day that asked me, 
What are we going to do about the minimum wage? We need to vote on the 
minimum wage--H.R. 1010, that would raise the minimum wage and bring 
over 5 million Americans out of poverty.
  I have signed the discharge petition and urge you to bring this bill 
up for a vote.

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