Quotes About Legislation

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.

Roe v. Wade used raw judicial power to overturn the democratically passed laws in every state in the country and remove state restrictions on abortion.

I promise to fight against any attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade in the Senate.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work.

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad.