A little over a week ago, the House passed H.107 the paid family and medical leave bill. That bill originated in my committee and we are now digging into testimony on S.23 which proposes to raise the minimum wage. In much of the testimony on those bills we heard quite a bit about how they would affect businesses and the economy. Such information is important and useful, but I ran for office to consider bigger questions as well.
At my campaign launch, I quoted a speech that Robert Kennedy delivered a few months before he was assassinated. To some degree, it feels like the issue he raises in it died in our national discourse too.
