Why We Need To Increase The Minimum Wage  With rising gas prices
and American workers losing their jobs to illegal aliens it's
imperative we do all we can to fight for the American worker and
ensure them a fair minimum wage. That's why I was pleased to
vote this week to instruct House conferees to include language
in Senate bill S250 to increase the minimum wage to no less than
$7.25 an hour. I'm also proud to be the co-sponsor of House
bill, H.R. 3413, which would increase the minimum wage from
$5.15 to $7.15 by 2007. I know increasing the minimum wage will
be a fight, but it's one worth fighting for. Congress has not
raised the federal minimum wage in almost ten years and every
day the minimum wage is not increased, it loses value to
inflation. I encourage the Senate and House conferees to quickly
come to a consensus on SR250 and include in it an increase in
the federal minimum wage.