Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040201734

So if we are talking about what Is germane. what could be more nongermane than Social Security and an attempt to say that Social Security somehow Is not to be dealt with when we do a balanced budget. when Social Security is $380 billion of the national budget. That is what we are talking about. nothing mysterious. nothing sinister. What are we talking about that is germane about minimum wage? But there might be something very Interesting and germane with minimum wage because the same people who are seeking an increase in the minimum wage are at the same time restricting effortssomerestricting efforts to reduce the number of lowskilled immigrants who are entering under the family preference system. I hope that we are able to divine that extraordinary difference. It is these lowskilled newcomers who flood the labor market which results then in stagnant wages.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1996-04-24
Speech ID
1040201734
Paragraph
#1
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