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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release November 9, 1999

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

The Senate Republican leadership made a serious mistake by insisting on using a minimum wage increase as a cynical tool to advance special interest tax breaks that aren't paid for and do little to help working families. I cannot let this bill become law in its current form. I once again call on Congress to give working American families the pay raise they deserve. Congress should pass clean legislation that boosts the minimum wage by one dollar over the next two years and simply restores the value of the minimum wage to what it was in 1982. American workers deserve no less.

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