[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. GARCIA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of Equal Pay Day because 
we are a stronger Nation when our sons and daughters get equal pay for 
an equal day of work. As the proud father of a teenage daughter, I know 
that children deserve to have a fair shot at success, regardless of 
their gender.
  When a woman in south Florida is paid 86 cents for every dollar paid 
to a man for the same job, it creates a yearly gap for women of almost 
$6,000. That's real money. It's nearly a year of groceries, 5 months of 
rent, 30 months of gas.
  And so, in this new century, with so many women serving as heads of 
households and women being a critical part of our economic success, 
it's time we close the gender pay gap once and for all and pass the 
Paycheck Fairness Act.

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