[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4826]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EQUAL PAY DAY

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, today is Equal Pay Day, a day to remind 
all Americans and all my colleagues here in Congress that 
discrimination and paycheck inequality still exists in the general 
workplace.
  Nationally, women earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. 
That income disparity must end now. And while women in my home State of 
California are paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to men, we must do 
more. To live in a country where women do not earn equal pay for equal 
work is sad and embarrassing.
  What does equality look like, Mr. Speaker? Equality looks like the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964; equality looks like the Voting Rights Act of 
1965; and equality needs to look like the Paycheck Fairness Act, which 
has yet to be passed.
  I urge the Speaker to bring this much needed bill to the House floor 
as soon as possible.
  To my constituents, please join me on Facebook tomorrow for a town 
hall meeting where I will be answering your questions about equality 
and what steps we should be taking to achieve equality for all. Please 
visit Facebook.com/RepLowenthal to join the conversation.

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