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On the recordMarch 10, 2010
Congress originally passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963. It was to end, and I quote, 'serious and endemic problem of unequal wages.'
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

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Mikulski highlights the historical intent of the Equal Pay Act and its current shortcomings.

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