you're a member of the congressional progressive caucus you know what is what does that mean to you well you know you can't do anything in politics myself just can't and if you play along the best you could do in politics alone is sort of play a kind of a paul revere figure you can sort of cry out loud about injustice. there's something going on but if you actually want to move a policy agenda you have to have help so you know part of the democratic caucus and but i ran for progressive caucus co-chair because i knew i had to get some allies if we want any any any chance to move a progressive agenda so for example. the progressive caucus dove in deep with this effort to try to get the president issued executive order to raise the pay of workers who are professional contractors working on this thing back in the spring time standing striking standing with striking workers at the ronald reagan building at the union station at the smithsonian air and space museum and we were standing there as they were striking demanding better pay as they were receiving eight dollars an hour stuff like that

advocate for peace abroad and equality at home congressman ellison is the co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus and is a leader comes to issues of civil rights and religious freedom his new memoir my country tis of thee my faith my family our future is a fascinating look at the values and experiences that have shaped disbeliefs congressman ellison joins us now in the studio congressman ellison welcome back good to see you great to see you again too for i love i don't know i love this book i have not read the entire thing but i've read a chokes yeah like a large chunks of it.

they were very well taken and i for one, and i know i speak on behalf of the entire congressional progressive caucus, but i for one hope that the national labor relations board revisits what happened in chattanooga, because what we believe here in america is free and fair elections and that includes labor union elections as well. we are here to talk about raising the minimum wage. and it was only appropriate that mr. miller from california was here with us this evening, because he's one of the co-authors of h.r. 1010, the bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. a modest proposal, i should add. but let me attempt to address this house. i know that there are those who think that everything that could be said about raising the minimum wage has already been said, but allow me to address this house as if nothing had been said about raising the minimum wage in this country to $10.10. it is simply a matter of arithmetic. you know, if you just take what people were making at a minimum wage in the late 1960's in this country and put it on a cost index, a consumer price index, any kind of measure of inflati