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On the recordMarch 24, 1999
Mr. Speaker, Senator Tom Harkin and I are introducing the Fair Pay Act of 1999, a bill that would require employers to pay equal wages to women and men performing comparable jobs in an effort to remedy the pay inequities that women continue to endure.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Introduction of the Fair Pay Act of 1999 addressing wage inequities between men and women.

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