[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4876]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EQUAL PAY DAY

  (Ms. FRANKEL of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, today is Equal Pay Day, which 
marks how far into the following year a woman must work, on average, to 
earn as much as a man earned the previous year.
  Mr. Speaker, in our great Nation of opportunity, no woman should be 
making less than her male colleagues for doing similar work, yet in our 
country women still earn, on average, 78 cents for each dollar earned 
by a man doing a comparable job.
  Discrimination hurts the pocketbook as well as the heart. Equal pay 
isn't just about fairness. It is about mothers putting food on the 
table for their children and saving for their own retirement security. 
That is why Congress must act now, to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act 
to the floor for a vote and give the victims of gender bias in the 
workplace the tools they need to seek justice.

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