Moon landing. And the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges on the backlog of immigration cases in the courts. Immigration cases in the court. [video clip] 391n this boat, the yea are this vote is passed. Host the house on thursday passing legislation to increase the federal and mom waged 15 an wage tofederal minimum 15 an hour. They did so on a partyline vote. We want to get your thoughts on the efforts to raise the minimum wage. If you make 15 or less, call in at 2027488000. If you are a Business Owner, 2027488001. And all others call us at 2027488002. You can also join us on twitter at cspanwj or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. This is what the raise the age act would do, raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour, tie wagee increases to median growth. Ld apply to teen workers of theto a little bit debate on the floor yesterday between democrats and republicans. We will start with [video clip] my parents worked hard to make ends meet so their children would have opportunities they never had and that is the american dream, which brings me back to the question of what it means to be a patriot. For me, it starts with gratitude for this country and appreciation for exceptional quality. This country saved my familys life. Think patriotism goes beyond love of country, it is also about striving to make this country even stronger. Its about trying to make life easier for americans to work hard and play by the rules. Folks like my parents and so. Any of my constituents i support this bill for a simple reason. In the greatest country on earth, nobody with the dignity of a fulltime job should suffer the indignity of not being able to provide for themselves or their loved ones. [applause] wage decade, the minimum has been stuck at 7. 25 an hour while the cost of living has skyrocketed. There is no part in this country where 7. 25 is a living wage. American families have earned it. This bill gradually increases the minimum wage in seven steps, reaching 15 by 2025. This is a reasonable bill, not a radical one. Cbo estimates it will raise wages for 30 million workers and left millions out of poverty. They will have more money to spend in the local economy and they will be less reliant on Government Programs and given that a deficit will exceed a trillion dollars, that should be music to my republican colleagues ears. Host stephanie mercy Stephanie Murphy citing the Congressional Budget Office. 17 million workers would see increased wages. 10 million earning slightly more than 15 an hour may see wage increases as well. 1. 3 million workers would become jobless, that is what republicans argued when they voted against this legislation. Listen to what republican congressman Lloyd Smucker from pennsylvania argued on the floor yesterday. [video clip] at 14 yearsager old, one of my first jobs was serving as a dishwasher. I had no previous work experience, but the owner took a chance on me. It did not receive a great wage, but it was a starting point and the lessons i learned in that job were lessons i learned used during my entire career, went on after high school to buy a small Construction Company, operated it for 25 years creating family sustaining jobs for hundreds of individuals. My 16yearold son serves food in a Skilled Nursing center after school at a wage of 9 per hour. He is thrilled with that. Again, learning the people skills needed, learning to show up for work on time and learning to work hard. One of the best indicators of success in a career is whether or not you had a job during high school. This bill, unfortunately, would rob many of the opportunity to hold that first job. 3. 7specifically said million jobs lost as a result of this bill. Our friends on the others of the aisle are not talking about that aspect of the bill. There is no question here about the desire to see every individual that we represent have the opportunity to live the american dream. The idea the previous speaker just said the idea that you can work hard, play by the rules, and live your dream. The question is the prescription and it is a fundamental choice. It is a choice of believing in our Free Enterprise system, believing in our Economic System that has created more opportunity than ever before in the history of the world or believing in more government control. Host thursdays debate on the house floor over raising the minimum wage. We turn to these to let washington know what you think of what the house did. Take a look at the map of the states across the country and where the minimum wage will be in 2019. Our first phone call from patricia, a Business Owner where the minimum wage is 9. 86. Go ahead. Caller i am wondering if you will have a story about bernie refusing to pay his Campaign Workers 15 an hour and not giving them health care. Host go ahead, patricia. Caller yeah, about bernie. Host why do you bring it up . Caller because it is about the minimum wage and he has been touting it and preaching to Business Owners his entire career and he is refusing to give his workers a minimum wage. You dont see the hypocrisy . Bank ilhan omar marrying her brother. Host as a Business Owner, what impact would raising the minimum wage have on you . Caller we sold our business. We would hire people and pay them according to the job. If they were just answering the phone, they would get 10 or 15 it was back in 2000. People with skills earn more. We would not have been able to surprised survive paying people that much for low skilled positions. Host the story she is referring campaignt page field hires demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a 15 an hour wage which sanders has said will be the federal minimum rate organizers and other and other employees have invoked are the words and principles making their case to the campaign manager. Marvin in philadelphia, your thoughts of raising the federal minimum wage. Caller this is not a matter of Student High School getting a job washing dishes. This is a matter of a person going to work in his 30s and 40s and having to pick up a minimum wage job just to get back into the fold. This is not an easy subject. You are asking for one prescription fills all, it does not work that way. Yes, there will have to be exceptions to the rule where people work below the minimum wage, but that doesnt mean it unfair minimum wage for everybody, it means there has to be exceptions. Lets have the minimum wage and lets have it at a fair level. Lets have the exceptions allowed. There is compromise, lets try to compromise, that is what politics is all about. Host marvins thoughts in philadelphia. I want to share with you what the u. S. Chamber of commerce proposed because they said they could support a 10 minimum wage, but also wanted some compromises made to the legislation, restore the tip credit, which allows employers to pay less than the minimum wage. Privately owned national franchises or Small Businesses rather than large employers and revise the definition of hours worked. This according to the washington examiner. These are among the recommendations made by the chamber of commerce when they came out recently and said we would support raising the minimum wage to 10 an hour. ,ets go to teresa in tennessee what impact would this have on you . Caller it doesnt affect me. We were going the average starting salary for your minimum retail was going 10 an hour. 7. 25 an hour rate, but it was going around 10 until we got an influx of illegals and the salary dropped completely. It does hurt that way. Here is my comment. The members of congress who i think it is so the members of Congress Calling for 15 an hour to 99 an hour for them for only working 120 to 180 days, no weekends, free vacations, every holiday off, it say weisrespectful to will give you a poultry 15 an hour while we make 100 an hour. Host they would argue when they are not in washington, they are still working in their districts. When they are not here, they are back in their district offices communicating and meeting with constituents and often working weekends, parades, town hall meetings, et cetera. Disagree withd that. I would totally disagree with that. The difference, they want to talk about corporations who make so much more the ceos that make so much more than their employees and yet they are more and to 99, even they have not passed one piece of legislation since taking the house back, not one piece of legislation except for the resolution to call our president a racist. Host they are passing bills, republicans controlled the senate, republicans are not taking up bills passed by the house, which is controlled by democrats, as you know. With two different ideologies, they have two different agendas in the house and senate. So smart tohank hold the senate. The house means nothing, the senate means everything and we will be taking back the house, so they have nothing to show. What can they go on the came pan and say we have accomplished for you since we have taken the house back . Host on minimum wage, do you think it should be higher than 15 an hour . . States i think the should determine what their states can pay, not the federal government. This federal government, minnesota would get a 15 an hour because they are democrats and tennessee, which votes republican, would get a seven dollars an hour. Host teresas thoughts in tennessee and as she indicated, it is unlikely the senate would take up this minimum wage bill, what is your reaction to that . Do you think they should or do you support not taking up the house bill . Robert in illinois, how much do you make in illinois . 14. 86 anused to make hour when i came out of high school. I am making less than 12 an hour. The woman from tennessee saying they only make seven dollars, minnesota makes 15, that is completely wrong, the legislation that comes out of the house gets buried by the Senate Majority leader it is pathetic, it is, this lady in tennessee, she has to remember, i worked construction they making eight dollars, 10 an hour, not because illegals came in, it is because their state voted for right to work, which kills anybody that wants to make a fair living. What were you doing when you were making 14 an hour versus what you are doing now . , iler i worked construction got hurt, i had to go to a different job and i am getting paid 11. 85. I farm on the side. It is pathetic to listen to these people and hear them whin e. Trumpare burning up and i havent seen a lick of that money. Your thoughts on raising the minimum wage. Gives thetion is what government the right what gives everyone the right to give to tell private Business Owners how much they should pay their employees . It should be between them and their employees. The politician already politicians are really very generous with somebody elses money. An hour orem 15 whatever they think people should get. Whatperson cannot live on they are making, get a job where they can. Do something about it. Host this is from the chamber of commerce, which represents businesses in washington, d. C. Saying the cbo report indicated an increase to around 10 an would result in few, if any job losses. The minimum wage increased also help employers both employers and employees would benefit. Minimum wage could be paired with updates to the fair labor standards act. I think we lost bill. We will move on, let me show you more from the house debate yesterday. This is congresswoman jayapal who represents seattle where and here ism wage what she had to say on the. Mpact on the city of seattle [video clip] today we passed the first minimum wage increase for workers for a decade and i am served onight where i the committee where i drafted the legislation. Myant to tally tell colleagues across the hour what the effect of that has been. Seattle is flourishing. We have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country and jobs growing steadily. Forbes ranked seattle the number one best place for business and careers in 2018 and despite the , whatnd gloom predictions we have seen is what the Seattle Times called a crazy restaurant boom with new jobs created every year. The most recent Research Shows wages for lowwage workers went up without any negative impact on employment and local food prices remain constant so families can better afford to buy healthy food. When we increase the minimum wage, we got strong businesses, healthy families, and flourishing communities. All workers deserve the same thing, lets raise the wage today. Host congresswoman jayapal saying it worked in seattle. Seattle based restaurant chain blames high minimum wage for bankruptcy. Bill in camden, new jersey. What do you think . Caller i dont believe the 15 wage increase and i will tell you why. I stopped my business three years ago due to my health. Hourd to pay my men 10 an and that was a fair wage for construction. 3500 a week to pay for those people. If i had to pay them 15, i have to lay two people off. That woman from washington, she is lying because we are talking about the unemployment rate. Under obama, more Temp Services came into effect. ,hen you sign a piece of paper you are on the list that you have a job even though you are not working. Everything is inflated with these numbers all the time, i dont believe it at all. Host what was your company, construction . Caller yes. I installed fence all my life. Host and you had 5 employees paying them 10 an hour . Caller yeah. To me, that was fair. They were kids from like high school. Three of them were fulltime. I would not have paid them 15 an hour, they would not have had a job. Host take a listen to bill and others to congressman rick allen, the owner of a Construction Company in georgia. This is what he had to say about the impact of raising the minimum wage. Caller i think it is laughable for anybody in this house to say the government will raise your wages. The government does not raise wages. What the government does is provide an environment for businesses to raise wages, that is where the decision should be. It is laughable to me ambers of congress believe they are going to raise the wages of people in this country by this legislation. He Congressional Budget Office recently released a report saying almost 4 million jobs could be lost if this were implemented. We had an eight year war on business and in 2016, we said that war is over. With georgia being the number one state to do business in for the past 6 years, this federal mandate would reverse all the great work our state has done to grow jobs in the economy and we are getting it done in georgia. I dont want maryland to determine what georgia is going to do. As a businessman, i know our economy is about supply and demand and with more job openings than jobseekers, wages are going to go up. Salaries saws and the largest increase in more than a decade thanks to the economic environment led by President Trump that has spurred Economic Growth and prosperity. The last thing we need is more onesizefitsall washington mandates that lead to job cuts, cut workers hours, and shut the doors on Small Business. Host that part of the debate on the house floor yesterday when lawmakers vote passed a minimum wage. Who makes the minimum wage . Old018, half under 25 years. 3 without High School Diplomas versus 2 with a diploma and most worked in a service, leisure, and hospitality industries. Diego, goodn morning to you at how much do you make in san diego . Caller right now, i dont have a job. Seattle ented in with these high wages, i dont know why that would be. I just wanted to say, this bill that passed yesterday, it is so dead on arrival. It is like a recipe for bankruptcy. Host maurice, take a look at how much has gone up over the decades. January 1 1979, 2. 80. In 2009, it was raised to 7. 25. You you think it has kept up . Caller did it ever double . Not even close. It is overreaction on the part of the democrats, to be honest with you. As far as the minimum wage saying goes, i think it is a mistake. It should be raised to maybe 10 an hour. 15, no. Host clarence in kentucky, good morning to you. Caller hello . Host good morning, clarence. What do you think of them raising the minimum wage . Caller that guy you just talk to, 10 sounds right, it is expensive to live in america. If you raise it to 15, that guy said he used to have a business and had to lay people off. Expensive to live in america. I would like to comment on the headlines what you were going to be talking about, people with disabilities working. I draw disability. I have since 2005 and when i first got my disability, like i told the judge, i would be the first to admit if i qualify for this, i just barely qualify. I am able to do something, but , ie the physical person said agree with that, it is pretty much what i told the judge. I am not competitive enough to hold down a job. I think we need more programs to help people that would want to work. The job market is not going to like that. I cut grass and do a little stuff around the house, but i have to take a lot of breaks and there are days i cannot do a whole lot, back to the 15 thing, if they made that a law, it is going to put a lot of people out of work because employers will not be able to keep up with that. Because that argument it is an argument the chamber of commerce lobbies on behalf of businesses is making as well. The Washington Post article they say stephanie mercy, Stephanie Murphy, leader of the moderate coalition who played a lead role negotiating the bill rejected gop criticism while contending the deliberate approach advocated by moderate democrats would guard against any negative effects. Murphy and others advocated for an amendment approved by the house that would require an independent study once the minimum rage reached 9. 50 to allow congress to monitor the effects of the law. The provision approved by house yesterday along a partyline vote, three republicans did vote for the measure, 6 democrats along with newly independent ju