christiefan915
Catalyst
How many conservatives will reelect these morons who are working against women's best interests? Republicans should be ashamed for showing their disdain for equality in such a stark light. 
"Women fell two votes short on Wednesday to coming closer to getting paid the same as men for the same work. Senate Republicans decided that equal pay for women should not even be considered, as they blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act from moving to the floor.
The bill, which will not be brought up again in this Congress, faces more of an uphill battle in the next one, with Republicans gaining control of the House and more seats in the Senate.
The Paycheck Fairness Act would have updated the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by closing loopholes, strengthening incentives to prevent pay discrimination and prohibiting retaliation against workers who inquire about employers’ wage practices or disclose their own wages, according to the American Association of University Women, which has been pushing for its passage for 10 years. It also would have required employers to show that wage gaps are a result of factors other than gender, to collect better data on wages and develop training for women on salary negotiations.
The House had passed the bill in January 2009 and President Obama had pledged to sign it.
On Wednesday, “a cloture on the motion to proceed,” which means a vote to put the bill on the floor for debate, fell two votes short of the required 60 votes. The vote was 58 yes, 41 no and one, Lisa Murkowski, the Republican senator from Alaska, in her home state and not voting. All Republicans voted no along with Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the lone dissenting Democrat.
The vote was decried by AAUW, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Women’s Law Center and other civic and labor organizations that had been pushing for passage."
http://www.thenation.com/article/156531/paycheck-fairness-dies-senate
"Women fell two votes short on Wednesday to coming closer to getting paid the same as men for the same work. Senate Republicans decided that equal pay for women should not even be considered, as they blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act from moving to the floor.
The bill, which will not be brought up again in this Congress, faces more of an uphill battle in the next one, with Republicans gaining control of the House and more seats in the Senate.
The Paycheck Fairness Act would have updated the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by closing loopholes, strengthening incentives to prevent pay discrimination and prohibiting retaliation against workers who inquire about employers’ wage practices or disclose their own wages, according to the American Association of University Women, which has been pushing for its passage for 10 years. It also would have required employers to show that wage gaps are a result of factors other than gender, to collect better data on wages and develop training for women on salary negotiations.
The House had passed the bill in January 2009 and President Obama had pledged to sign it.
On Wednesday, “a cloture on the motion to proceed,” which means a vote to put the bill on the floor for debate, fell two votes short of the required 60 votes. The vote was 58 yes, 41 no and one, Lisa Murkowski, the Republican senator from Alaska, in her home state and not voting. All Republicans voted no along with Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the lone dissenting Democrat.
The vote was decried by AAUW, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Women’s Law Center and other civic and labor organizations that had been pushing for passage."
http://www.thenation.com/article/156531/paycheck-fairness-dies-senate
