[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4818]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EQUAL PAY DAY

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to address wage equality 
in our Nation, or the lack thereof.
  I was raised by a mother, a schoolteacher. She worked hard. She 
worked harder than any male that I know of on her job, and then when 
she came home, she worked hard in the home, harder than any male that 
I've ever known. And she turned me over to my wife.
  My wife works harder than I ever thought about working, both outside 
the home and in the home. So I believe that it is definitely a great 
tragedy that either one of those women would make less than a man doing 
the same thing on the job. I think it's terrible.
  Seventy-seven cents for every dollar earned by a man is what women 
make in my home State of Georgia. I'm particularly alarmed by the wage 
gap for minority women, who often earn less than 64 cents for every 
dollar earned by a non-minority man.
  Without equal pay, women working twice as hard only go half as far. 
We must continue to strive for income equality and support women in the 
workplace.

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