[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6859]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               EQUAL PAY

  Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, it is hard for me to understand 
how the Senate cannot support equal pay for equal work, the same for 
women as for men. That happened yesterday, on a vote of 56 in favor of 
proceeding to the bill on equal pay for equal work and 43 against. I do 
not understand that.
  What is worse is my wife and many other spouses of Senators cannot 
understand that. I assure you, they are letting their husbands and 
spouses know how they feel--that they cannot understand how the Senate 
cannot proceed to a bill for equal pay for equal work for women.
  I hope the next time we try to move to a bill for which we have to 
hit the 60-vote threshold to get over the filibuster to get to the 
bill--we need 4 more votes--I hope somewhere over there we are going to 
be able to get them when we bring up equal pay for equal work for 
women.
  I yield the floor.

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