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Lois Frankel: My, my, my. Here we go again. Another bill to protect the derrieres of big business, allowing them to hide crucial data…

On the recordSeptember 12, 2017
My, my, my. Here we go again. Another bill to protect the derrieres of big business, allowing them to hide crucial data from public scrutiny, information that would disclose pay disparities in the workplace. It is a law, Mr. Chairman, that businesses must pay equal pay for equal work. So why is it that women and minorities make much less money than their white male counterparts doing similar work? Mr. Chairman, let's pass this amendment. Root out pay discrimination, because it is time that all Americans are paid for their hard work and not for their gender or the color of their skin.
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Lois Frankel
Democratic · Florida
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Sep 12, 2017

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