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Change in Leadership

Date: Sept. 27, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income


CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP -- (House of Representatives - September 27, 2006)

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(Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, when this House votes to adjourn, we will be voting to put politics above policies, to put the needs of us as politicians over the needs of the American people, for leadership will insist that we leave without dealing with energy independence; leave while our seniors are falling into the donut hole provided in the poorly planned part D of Medicare; leave before we deal with college affordability; before we deal with tax relief for the middle class, especially the alternative minimum tax, the dreaded AMT; and as I get to in a second, leave before we raise the minimum wage.

We should be working for the American people in October instead of spending the month going home to ask for their forgiveness for not working in October.

Let us look particularly at the minimum wage. We should be dealing with H.R. 2129 which would increase the minimum wage from its incredibly low $5.15 to something approaching a minimum wage.

So, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 2129.

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