Thursday, October 29, 2015

Everything The GOP Candidates Said About Equal Pay During The Debate Is BS—And Then Some

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/29/everything-the-gop-candidates-said-about-equal-pay-during-the-debate-is-bs-and-then-some/
"Here are the facts, folks. Say whatever you want to attack President Obama, the very first bill he signed as president was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, so don’t even try and pretend like he hasn’t done anything for women and families.
Republicans? What were they doing? Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz all voted against cloture to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act to the Senate floor for an up or down vote. Get this: Rubio even had the gall, on the Senate floor, to say “I just think we’re wasting time” while the Senate was discussing these equal pay bills. But hell, at least he knew what paycheck fairness was. Jeb can’t consider himself so lucky.
Christie is worse. As governor, he vetoed two bills that would have helped with equal pay for equal work. The first one would have required transparency for salaries for all government contractors. The other was a state version of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Again, both were vetoed."