Chairman Miller Statement On Senate Minimum Wage Vote

Thursday, February 1, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement this evening after Senate passage of minimum wage legislation.

"The vote in the Senate this evening takes us one step closer to finally increasing the national minimum wage, and I believe that we can now act quickly to agree on a final bill and get it to the President's desk for his signature. It has been nearly ten years since the last increase in the minimum wage, and minimum wage workers simply cannot afford any more delays. Millions of Americans who go to work every day still wind up poor at the end of the year. In a country as wealthy as ours, we simply cannot tolerate that."

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