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Barack Obama: “The notion that your mom, your sister, your daughters, your spouse should not be discriminated against at the workplace…”

On the recordApril 8, 2014
The notion that your mom, your sister, your daughters, your spouse should not be discriminated against at the workplace, and if they're doing a good job doing something, that they should get paid the same as somebody's son, husband, father.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Dinner in Houston

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