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GOP Blocks Equal Pay...again
Just in time for election season, Senate Republicans blocked legislation aimed at closing the gender pay gap. For the third time since 2012, Republicans refused to allow debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, and reminded women that the GOP doesn't believe in equal pay for equal work
Even in 2014, women still earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts, and there are substantial legal hurdles that prevent women from suing employers for pay discrimination. Senate Democrats introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act years ago, to provide training for salary negotiations, and prevent employers from retaliating against workers who fight for equal pay.
Republicans in the upper chamber claim that the legislation would mean more lawsuits, and say that Democrats should be focused on other matters. Senator John McCain said, “Here we have an international crisis, with the defense authorization bill out there, and we refuse to take [that] up.” However, many Americans would argue that the Arizona Senator has his priorities backwards.
Just like unemployment, student debt relief, and immigration reform, Republicans continue to block the Paycheck Fairness Act but have no problem voting to fund another war. Americans want Congress to get to work on jobs and infrastructure and equal pay for equal work, but those on the Right refuse to pass anything that could be viewed as a win for the President.
Come this November, it's time to remind Congress that they work for us. Let's say enough with the obstruction, and elect new lawmakers who are actually listening to We The People.
-Thom
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Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:     campaign site.
Hour Two: Who's winning the war on poverty?- Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation
Quote: " I want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be taxpayers instead of tax eaters" - " We shall Overcome" speech by Lyndon B. Johnson, March 15, 1965.
Event: Sept 26th 8pm, DC: " An evening w/Sami Yusuf" at The Strathmore- the concert benefits the Foundation for Traditional Studies and features music from his album The Centre. Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
Hour Three: Scotland votes for a united U.K.- John Nichols, The Nation
Article: " Women and the vote" anniversary of New Zealand becoming the first self-governing country in the world to give all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections, 19 September 1893). |
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