[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5991-5992]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               EQUAL PAY

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

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  Ms. HAHN. Madam Speaker, we know that when women succeed, America 
succeeds; but, unfortunately, our mothers, daughters, and sisters are 
not succeeding when women, on average, earn just 77 cents to every 
dollar that a man makes, and one in three women and their families are 
living on the brink of poverty.
  Across the Nation, women are facing unprecedented economic 
insecurity. Pay inequity, combined with the lack of affordable child 
care or paid family leave, means women are burdened with an unfair 
disadvantage and struggle to support their families.
  Pay discrimination means that African American women are expected to 
earn just 64 cents to every dollar earned by a White man, while Latinas 
earn just 54 cents.
  Yesterday, I was proud to join President Obama and Lilly Ledbetter at 
the White House to mark Equal Pay Day. We witnessed the President sign 
two critical executive orders that will empower women to fight pay 
discrimination. It is a simple principle: equal pay for equal work.
  I was disappointed that our Senate colleagues failed to pass the 
Paycheck Fairness Act and address this situation. I urge them to 
reconsider addressing the injustice of paycheck discrimination.

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