[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5779]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, again, to support equal pay for 
equal work.
  Republicans and Democrats share the conviction that no one should 
lose wages on account of one's sex. As is so often the case in this 
politically polarized city, though, the broad agreement on the goal 
does not extend to the methods we should use to get there.
  Under the guise of equal pay, our Democrat colleagues would have us 
pass more rules, institute more red tape, and create more grounds for 
lawyers to drag businessowners into court. Perhaps there is a certain 
logic to this ``regulate everything'' approach.
  After all, as The New York Times reported today, the President hasn't 
even been able to equalize pay between men and women in his own White 
House.
  However, this President's ongoing regulatory blitzkrieg has helped to 
equalize the wages of 6.7 percent of the population--the unemployed.

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