I think, frankly, that the Syrians share that objective. I don't think their interest, as they perceive it, is the same.
Syria continues to engage in deeply troubling behavior.
The previous administration did not believe that we should talk to countries with whom we have a difficult relationship.
I commend the Obama administration for deciding to send an Ambassador and reopen the diplomatic front.
The Paycheck Fairness Act will not prohibit businesses from taking into consideration market factors.
I would say that the remedies need to be strengthened certainly in the Equal Pay Act, and title VII is no panacea either.
I want to thank Mike Enzi. I couldn't agree more. We need to get our economy back on its feet again.
There was a concerted effort to just virtually eliminate the EEOC, if they could, by strangling it financially and starving it.
It is, frankly, a little embarrassing that we have to be here today talking about the wage gap between men and women.
Using any factor other than sex, we found to be a rather large loophole.
Let us vote.
Oh, it is huge.
Women still earn just 77 percent of what men earn.
The fact that people are prohibited from talking about their wages in many cases stifles the conversation.
As Senator Dodd pointed out, the military is a business with clear pay equity policies.
If you take some of the proposals that I supported when I was here that Mike Enzi has talked about in terms of these workforce issues, combi...
The better approach is to look at how the wage scale is dealt with for this job.
That is why I strongly support the Paycheck Fairness Act, which Senators Dodd and Mikulski have long championed.
