Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman from New Jersey for bringing us together tonight to talk about one of the most fundamental issues facing women in this country. I would hope that we would do these Special Orders on a monthly basis or maybe even more frequently to kind of beat the drum about how important it is for us to address this issue. Today we see everything we need to see to convince us of the need to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and put women's equality into the Constitution. We have a pay gap that has not closed where women are making 79 cents for every dollar that men make. For African American women that is 63 cents, and for Latina women it is 54 cents for every dollar earned by a man. In fact, women in this country have to work until April 15 of the following year--tax day, ironically--to make as much money as their male counterparts. We can't afford that. We can't afford that in a country that speaks of equality. Meanwhile, we have a Congress and State legislators who are focused like a laser beam on attacking women's health. We just spent 5 hours today in a hearing of a special committee designed specifically to attack women's health. Since the start of 2016--merely 2 months ago, and for the last 2 months--there have been more than 201 anti-choice bills introduced in State legislatures across this country, efforts to undermine a woman's right to choose. We have a Supreme Court seat at stake and issues of gender equality hanging in the balance.…”