Making sure that every woman earns a fair day's pay is increasingly important to family economic well-being.
I am so proud that the first law President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Congress has put two laws on the books to combat such discrimination--Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 196...
Unfortunately, pay discrimination is a harsh reality in today's workplace, but it doesn't have to be that way.
I welcome this opportunity to argue in favor of equal pay for women in the workforce as a proven means to strengthen American families and t...
Put simply, the Paycheck Fairness Act is a modest, common-sense reform that closes numerous longstanding loopholes in the Equal Pay Act.
But as significant an achievement as that law was, we still need to act to eliminate that pay discrimination.
I believe the goal of this committee should be to find solutions, and I have two solutions to offer for this potential problem.
I am confident that there is no member of this committee who would tolerate paying a woman less for the same work simply because she is a wo...
I am pleased and proud that the first piece of legislation that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, but th...
I believe that Paycheck Fairness is legislation whose time has come.
I want to thank my colleague Senator Dodd publicly, as I have privately, for his great leadership in this area for so many, many years.
I believe that paycheck fairness is legislation whose time has come.
He has spent so much of his professional career in trying to ensure the economic security of women and families in this Nation.
I believe we have a moral obligation to ensure that one half of the American workforce is treated as fairly and equitably as the other half.
We're in a critical period in the coming year with national elections next month, which are the first in more than 2 decades.
It is, as you know, a very bipartisan Committee and I think that is part of why we have been able to accomplish a lot over the years.
Now, if I was given a second chance to do something else in education, it would be with principals.
