House Proceeding on Jan 9th, 2009 :: 0:21:50 to 0:23:15
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Jerrold Nadler: granddaughters, are ever punished in the same way. urge my colleagues to vote yes for the ledbetter fair pay act. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back her time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. andrews: madam speaker, i'm pleased at this time to yield to the gentleman from new york, a strong voice of civil liberties, mr.ed in letter, one minute.

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Speech By: Jerrold Nadler

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Jerrold Nadler: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. nadler: thank you, madam speaker. it's been 46 years since congress passed the equal pay act in 1963. yet women still earn on average only 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man and the promise of pay equity remains unfull filled. in the supreme court's lilly ledbetter decision makes it almost impossible to challenge

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Jerrold Nadler: payrol this bill would overturn that decision. last year the subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and civil liberties which i chair held a ledbetter case and heard directly from lilly ledbetter who eloquently described the terrible injustice of the court's decision. the court held that although she lost thousands of dollars of pay because of intentional sex

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Jerrold Nadler: discrimination, she could not sue because the employer had succ misconduct and scridges for more than six months. this decisionakes it almost impossible to enforce the rights to be paid the same regardless of race or sex, etc. this must be changed and this bill changes that. the need for the paycheck

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Jerrold Nadler: fairness act is equally clear. unfair pay disparities requires workers and their families to