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On the recordMay 7, 2013
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. A little while ago we had a debate about the pay in the White House. I have an article from the Daily Caller that I would like to enter into the Record, and I will quote briefly from the article. The article is dated January 15, 2013, posted by Caroline May: While President Obama handily won the women's vote by 11 percentage points in November over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, his administration paid the women on his payroll less than his male employees last year. A Daily Caller analysis of the administration's ``2012 Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff'' shows that while women comprised about half of the 468 staffers--as the President touted during his press conference Monday--they also earned about 13 percent less, on average, than their male counterparts. The median 2012 salary for female employees of the White House was $62,000; for men that number was $71,000. The article ends with a quote from New York Democratic Representative Charlie Rangel. He, however, called Obama's failure to appoint more women and minorities to high-profile positions ``embarrassing as hell.'' ``The questions I've heard are fair,'' Rangel said January 10 on MSNBC. ``The record does speak for itself.'' With that, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. [From the Daily Caller, Jan.…
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