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MANCHIN: "Well, I think that every Republican wants to raise the minimum wage. Everyone’s just not in sync with Bernie Sanders at $15. A lot of the areas already have $15. I agree with Joe Biden when he says anybody that goes to work every day and works full-time should be above the poverty guidelines. That’s where $11 comes in. This is stuff that we’re not just making up or I’m making up. Basically, I’m talking to people as professionals who basically look into this. And you say about the economists, the economists are the ones telling us that this economy is going to take off. Let’s get ready to go. And you said that no Republicans got involved at all in the process. I had ten Republicans I worked with for about a month and a lot of the things that I was able to get in the bill were things we worked with them, Chris."