mr. clyburn. as we work to shut down those special interest corporate loopholes that encourage americans, companies to move jobs overseas, as we shut those down and invest those savings in jobs here at home, we need to make sure, as mr. clyburn said, that those jobs pay a decent wage, a living wage, a wage that can support american families. because when american families succeed, all of america succeeds. so there are two things we're going to do. in that first 100 days. the first is end the scandal that in america you can work 40 hours a week, all year long, and still have to raise your family in poverty. that is simply wrong. we need to make sure we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and get that done once and for all. but we cannot stop there. we need to make sure all of america has a shot at a wage. what we've seen over the last several decades is large increases in worker productivity. we have seen skyrocketing increases in c.e.o. pay and bonuses. what we have not seen is increases in t

mr. clyburn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. clyburn: i thank the gentlelady for yielding me this time. mr. speaker we in this body are called upon to represent the wishes of the american people. ast national election, president obama was re-elected by the american people by an overwhelming majority. and what we find today are the people who opposed his re-election, the people who for years now have been wishing upon him failure or attempting to do with this lawsuit what they could not do at the polling places. rather than address the problems of the american people, repairing our crumbling nfrastructure, getting affordability for our young people to attend colleges and universities and other post-secondary education, here we are trying to find a way to upon which to eg hang an impeachment resolution. that's what this is all about. i would hope that we would hurry up and return dignity to this body and stop these charades that are inflaming the american people in a way they are undeserving of and i yield back. the speaker pro tem

mr. clyburn. awfully honored that he is here as well.r sharing your mother and father with us. we are deeply in your debt. as senator levin said, this is the congressional gold medal and certainly not enough thanks but as a token of our appreciation to martin, to dexter, to bernice and to dr. king's sister christine king ferris. thank you for being with us today. this day, of course, would not be possibly without your parents and certainly would not be possible at all without president lyndon johnson, so thank you, lynn do d.inda johns and senator robb. clab cl [ applause ] again, as we gathered n the rotunda under the gaze of president lincoln we recall the gettysburg address when the great emancipator harkened back not to the constitution but to the declaration of independence. ours was a new nation, he said, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. that is the promise of america and in making that promise come true that was the dream of dr. martin luther king, jr. and coretta scott king. a

mr. clyburn. for five minutes. mr. clyburn: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise this morning to denounce the unprecedented political attack house republicans are bringing to the floor of this house. this week this body will consider a measure to bring a lawsuit against the president of the united states for doing the job that the people of this country elected him to do. this highly partisan lawsuit is a subterfuge. it's a subterfuge by house republicans aimed at achieving their political goals that they were not able to achieve at the ballot box. make no mistake about it. this is not a frivolous matter. nothing could be more serious than house republicans attempting to get the taxpayers of this country to finance their misuse and abuse of the legal system. the ultimate goal of this exercise is to try to discover some peg upon which they can hang an impeachment resolution. this is very simple. republicans could not defeat this president in back-to-back elections, and now they are looking for other means to their ends. this wasteful republican awsu

mr. clyburn, how much of this do you think is at the aca and how is it is implemented? >> i think most of it is directed at the president. i agree with my colleagues. that is the way we resolve issues at the ballot box. what has gone on here is the failure to defat this program at the ballot box is now being substituted with the lawsuit. this is just an attempt, as john lewis said, to once again to destroy the effectiveness of this president because they did not get their way in the pile discussions. we do that every two years. we don't go to the courts and ask the courts to carry on our political battles for us. i remember very well, right after 2000, when there are a lot of people in our caucus saying, let's impeach president bush. nancy pelosi said very forcefully, impeachment is off the table. now let's go forward. i would love to see speaker boehner speak up and let everybody know that impeachment is off the table so that we can have the kind of powerful discussions that my colleague thinks we aught to be having. not what gone on all year and i thank the american p

mr. clyburn. as we work to shut down those special interest corporate loopholes that encourage americans, companies to move jobs overseas, as we shut those down and invest those savings in jobs here at home, we need to make sure, as mr. clyburn said, that those jobs pay a decent wage, a living wage, a wage that can support american families. because when american families succeed, all of america succeeds. so there are two things we're going to do. in that first 100 days. the first is end the scandal that in america you can work 40 hours a week, all year long, and still have to raise your family in poverty. that is simply wrong. we need to make sure we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and get that done once and for all. but we cannot stop there. we need to make sure all of america has a shot at a wage. what we've seen over the last several decades is large increases in worker productivity. we have seen skyrocketing increases in c.e.o. pay and bonuses. what we have not seen is increases in t

mr. clyburn. awfully honored that he is here as well.r sharing your mother and father with us. we are deeply in your debt. as senator levin said, this is the congressional gold medal and certainly not enough thanks but as a token of our appreciation to martin, to dexter, to bernice and to dr. king's sister christine king ferris. thank you for being with us today. this day, of course, would not be possibly without your parents and certainly would not be possible at all without president lyndon johnson, so thank you, lynn do d.inda johns and senator robb. clab cl [ applause ] again, as we gathered n the rotunda under the gaze of president lincoln we recall the gettysburg address when the great emancipator harkened back not to the constitution but to the declaration of independence. ours was a new nation, he said, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. that is the promise of america and in making that promise come true that was the dream of dr. martin luther king, jr. and coretta scott king. a

mr. clyburn. as we work to shut down those special interest corporate loopholes that encourage americans, companies to move jobs overseas, as we shut those down and invest those savings in jobs here at home, we need to make sure, as mr. clyburn said, that those jobs pay a decent wage, a living wage, a wage that can support american families. because when american families succeed, all of america succeeds. so there are two things we're going to do. in that first 100 days. the first is end the scandal that in america you can work 40 hours a week, all year long, and still have to raise your family in poverty. that is simply wrong. we need to make sure we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and get that done once and for all. but we cannot stop there. we need to make sure all of america has a shot at a wage. what we've seen over the last several decades is large increases in worker productivity. we have seen skyrocketing increases in c.e.o. pay and bonuses. what we have not seen is increases in t