[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6087-6088]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK

  (Mr. KILMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILMER. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of a very simple 
principle: equal pay for equal work.
  It turns out I am not the only one in my household who supports equal 
pay. One morning last month, on my way out the door, my 8-year-old, 
Sophie, asked me my plans for the day. I said I was having an event 
called ``When Women Succeed, America Succeeds'' focused on economic 
opportunity for women, including good jobs and good pay.
  She said, Dad, that's my agenda. I said, You have an agenda? She 
said, Yeah. She showed me her ``Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' book. At the top 
of one of the pages it says, When I am elected President, the laws I 
pass will be--and number one, she wrote, in penmanship we are going to 
work on, Women should get paid the same as men.

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  This shouldn't be hard, Madam Speaker. My 8-year-old gets it, and the 
American people are waiting for Congress to get it too.
  So let's stand up for equal pay for equal work and bring the Paycheck 
Fairness Act up for a vote.

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