House Proceeding on Jan 9th, 2009 :: 1:13:05 to 1:14:50
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Carol Shea-Porter: isn't that a cheat on the family? my anger knows no bounds. i am so grateful this is up today. 40 years is long enough to wait. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. >> i am now pleased to yield win

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Speech By: Carol Shea-Porter

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Carol Shea-Porter: minute to a very hardworking gentlelady from new hampshire. >> i rise today to express my enthusiastic support for h.r. 12, the paycheck fairness t and i thank chairman miller of the education and labor committee and congresswoman delauro, the sponsor of this legislation, for their tireless work and leadership on this issue. to paraphrase james madison, if men and women were angels, no

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Carol Shea-Porter: government would be necessary. and in an ideal world, we wouldn't need legislation to re-enforce the concept of equal pay for equal work. but even today in 2009, women make an average of only 78 cents for every made by their male counterparts. the importance of the paycheck fairness act is clear.

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Carol Shea-Porter: gender-based wage discrimination has been i legal in this country since the equal -- illegal in this country since the equal pay act was signed into law. yet the pay disparity between women and men that still persists today highlights the need to take another look at our wage discrimination laws. this disparity, by the way, is estimated to cost a working woman between 00,000 and

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Carol Shea-Porter: million over a lifetime. i'm a proud coy sponsor and un-- proud co-sponsor and >> i'm pleased at this time to yield to one of our new members who is already delivering justice for the hardworking women, the gentleman from michigan, mr. peters, for one minute.

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Carol Shea-Porter: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is regnized for one minute. mr. peters: i rise today in