"Thank you so much, Madame Chair, for this opportunity. It is my great honor to introduce Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner..."
"We are so proud of the work that Moms Rising has done not just in Washington State but around the country."
"Every woman in this country, especially the black women and Latinas and native women who experience the most yawning pay gaps deserves robust, baseline, equal pay protections in a Federal law that act..."
"I just believe that we can do better."
"It is time to match the seriousness of the women in this country who are calling for change."
"It's time to stop treating women unfairly in the United States of America."
"It's time for women to be able to join together, to be able to share information and to demand that current pay not be set by past pay without fear of retaliation."
"If women had pay parity, we would drop poverty in families by 50 percent."
"An economy that is 72 percent of our GPD is based on consumer spending."
"I'm so excited that we are all here today to solve it and to finally, finally, finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act."
"It is just crazy to me that we would not be investing everything we can into making sure that our kids and our teachers and our communities have the resources they need."
"Washington state was actually--the state supreme court actually ruled that the state was not meeting its constitutional obligation to fund public education way back in 2012, and we finally are correct..."