Nancy Pelosi: ‘We Don’t Begrudge Anyone Their Success or Their Income’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at an event celebrating the introduction of a bill to more than double the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15.00 per hour said that she and her colleagues do not "begrudge anyone their success or their income" but they do "begrudge exploitation" of workers.

"Do you know that by today, many of the CEOs of the companies that were fighting the minimum wage increase, they have earned as much in the couple of weeks in January as they will pay these employees for the whole year," said Pelosi. :That is not justice. That isn't fair. That isn't right.

In the course of the proceedings, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia is here from Texas. Also from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee. I just saw with the eyes in the back of my head – they say that about moms. We have Nanette Barragan from California, Suzanne Bonamici from Oregon, Dwight Evans from Pennsylvania and others will be joining us that I have not already acknowledged.