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On the recordApril 11, 2013
Mr. Speaker, I'd like to reiterate again--and my colleague from Connecticut has left--that there is absolutely nothing that would prevent the White House from giving equal pay to people in jobs there. We don't need new legislation to do that. It's certainly possible for the White House to do it now. And that is one of the most egregious situations of differential pay that exists in the country right now. With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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