Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Virginia and thank him for his leadership--also, the Speaker and the ranking member. According to the National Women's Law Center, based on today's wage gap, a woman who works full-time year-round would typically lose $406,280 over her 40-year career. This means a woman making the median national salary for women would have to work almost 9 years longer than her male counterpart. Mr. Speaker, 58 years after the enactment of the Equal Pay Act, full- time working women still earn 82 cents on average for every dollar a man earns, amounting to a yearly gap of almost $20,000. They, too, raise children. They, too, have overhead. In this pandemic year, we have found that 2 million women have lost their jobs. We know that Hispanic women earn 55 cents, Native-American women 60 cents, and African-American women, on average, only 63 cents. It is time now to put this paycheck fairness bill on the desk of the President of the United States. It modernizes and strengthens the Equal Pay Act, which is what the Lilly Ledbetter Act was, and brings the country one step closer to ensuring that women can receive equal pay for equal work. Mr. Speaker, I ask for support of this legislation. Mr. Speaker, as an original cosponsor, a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary, on Homeland Security, on the Budget, and a member of the Democratic Working Women's Task Force, I rise in strong support of H.R.…”