"Is there any consideration of an executive order, as I and the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee have called for, prohibiting Government contractors from retaliating against their employees who disclose salary information?"
"If I can ask unanimous consent to put into the record a document about the raising the minimum wage, 10 Reasons Raising the Minimum Wage to $10.10 Is a Women's Issue."
"I think that is very important."
"I have been involved in putting together something called the Women's Economic Agenda, which focuses on three main priorities--pay and rising pay, work-family balance, and childcare."
"I was very happy to see the budget request for an increase of OFCCP and including funds to investigate pay discrimination by Government contractors."
"I honestly have no sense of whether we were impactful, whether we were effective or not."
"It is another sequester on steroids."
"If they cannot be protected on the job and lose their life, we have a moral responsibility to do something about that."
"I want to know how you plan to collect compensation data from Federal contractors in order to improve contractor awareness and encourage self-evaluations."
"Can you make a compelling case for going above this year's spending caps to fund additional job training programs?"
"the Congress has cut funding for job training and reemployment programs by 20 percent since fiscal year 2010."