[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9767]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   51ST ANNIVERSARY OF EQUAL PAY ACT

  (Ms. TITUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, over the last 50 years, women have broken 
barriers in business, science, education, and government; yet in 
Nevada, the average woman still makes only 85 cents for every dollar a 
man earns, so that leads to a pay gap of more than $6,300 every year.
  This not only harms individual women, it hurts their families, our 
communities, and the national economy. In a country where we strive for 
equal opportunity for all, this inequity is simply unacceptable.
  That is why I am calling on my Republican colleagues to bring the 
Paycheck Fairness Act to the floor for a vote. How can they say to 
their wives, ``You deserve less pay than I do?'' How can they say to 
their daughters, ``You are worth less than my sons?'' How can they tell 
their staff that the women aren't as valuable as the men? It is just 
unconscionable.
  So I say pass this bill now because when women succeed, Nevada 
succeeds, and America succeeds.

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