On the recordApril 15, 2015
Let me thank the gentleman from Colorado for his very lucid explanation of where we are today. Let me say that I hope my colleagues will join me in eliminating sequester. We can put that on the floor today that would in actuality provide more funding for education, for military pay, and for the infrastructure. We need to be doing serious work here. Let me join my colleague, Congresswoman DeLauro, in opposing the rule and the previous question in order to be able to assure that we pass pay equity. Today, in 2015, whether we have the death tax or the sales tax, we have women who are making 75 cents on a dollar and cannot make ends meet. We are having women who are not in the body of this august House and Senate working every day and getting 75 cents on the dollar. It is time for pay equity now. Let's hear the voices raised up to be able to support the working women of America who over almost a century ago--not yet--were fighting for the right to vote. We have gained the right to vote, but we are still in an unequal economic circumstance. I want my colleagues to be as energetic about providing for pay equity. Now, Mr. Speaker, let me say something that is sort of bifurcated. I will say to you that, on the death tax, there is an equity in that.…
