Honorable Buck McKeon
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative McKeon, of the Twenty-Fifth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served as Mayor of Santa Clarita, California, from 1977 to 1988 and on the Santa Clarita City Council from 1998 to 1992. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on Education and Labor and also sits on the Armed Services Committee. The following is from the January 10, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 2, the Fair Minimum Wage Act.This debate represents a series of colossal missed opportunities. The new Democratic leadership of the House promised us…