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Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill To Help Guarantee Fair Pay For Women

By Guest Blogger on Nov 17, 2010 at 1:54 pm

Our guest blogger is Rebecca Lefton, a Researcher with Progressive Media.

Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted

58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women.

It had already passed the House.

More than 45 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap shockingly persists with women still earning on average 77

cents to every man’s dollar. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “This persistent pay gap translates to more than

$10,000 in lost wages per year for the average female worker.” The gap is even worse for women of color: African-American

women earn 61 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar a white non-Hispanic man earns.

Source;http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/17/130872/paycheck-fairness-act-fail/?mobile=nc

Mr. Ryan is best known as the face of Republican budget-cutting, though his ideology runs much deeper. For years, he has been

a reliable vote against workplace equity for women, opposing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes it easier for

women to file wage-discrimination lawsuits, and two similar measures.

The full outpouring of hard-right enthusiasm is based, to a large degree, on Mr. Ryan’s sweeping opposition to abortion

rights. He has long wanted to ban access to abortion even in the case of rape, the ideology espoused in this year’s

Republican platform. (Mr. Romney favors a rape exception.) Mr. Ryan also co-sponsored, along with Representative Todd Akin of

Missouri, a bill that would have narrowed the definition of rape to reduce the number of poor women who can get an abortion

through Medicaid.

source;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/opinion/paul-ryans-social-extremism.html?_r=0

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Had Mitt Romney been president in 2009, he would not have signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into

law, a top adviser to the Republican nominee told The Huffington Post Tuesday night.

Now that the law has been passed, Romney has no plans to get rid of it, that adviser, Ed Gillespie, added. But Romney didn’t

support it while it made its way through Congress.

“The governor would not repeal the Lilly Ledbetter Act,” said Gillespie, following Tuesday night’s presidential debate. “He

was opposed to it at the time. He would not repeal it.”

The statement from Gillespie is the furthest that the Romney campaign has gone in detailing the candidate’s position on the

law, which allows women greater opportunity to sue over pay inequity at the workplace. Previously, the governor’s campaign

has said that he would not repeal the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which was the first bill President Barack Obama signed into law,

while leaving unanswered whether or not he would have signed it had he been president at the time.

The topic came up during the debate, with Obama criticizing Romney’s campaign for demurring when asked about the legislation.

“I just want to point out that when Governor Romney’s campaign was asked about the Lilly Ledbetter bill, whether he supported

it, he said, ‘I’ll get back to you,'” Obama said. “And that’s not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy.”

Source; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/mitt-romney-lilly-ledbetter_n_1973446.html

And so the Romney campaign still refuses to say concretely if Mitt Romney if he were president would have signed the act…

Really …….
Well perhaps his party spoke for him….and besides we really should not worry what Romney would and wouldn’t have done if the decision were his,because after all it was not.
No that decision was not dependent on Romney nor the Republican party….thank goodness.

Because these are the facts.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (Pub.L. 111-2, S. 181) is a federal statute in the United States that was the first bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009. The Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 stating that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action.
So you see discussing what the Conservative Republican Party ,or Mitt Romney would or would not do is totally inconsequential SOURCE;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009

Facts being facts it was and still is President Barack Obama,a Democrat,who by his actions not his rhetoric stood for the rights of women of this country.

Case Closed.

The same Barack Obama that is now running for President Of The United States against the same Mitt Romney.
Choose wisely my friends.

Thank you
DL