[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EQUAL PAY DAY

  (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Equal Pay Day.
  It is an absolute shame that, in the United States, women earn, on 
average, 78 cents of every dollar that a man makes. For women of color, 
this gap is even worse: 64 cents for African American women and 56 
cents for Latinas.
  Mr. Speaker, the pay gap is harming working families in every State, 
but it is particularly harmful in the two-thirds of families where 
women are the primary breadwinners. Lower paychecks mean less money for 
groceries, rent, child care, and other family necessities.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be an original cosponsor of the Paycheck 
Fairness Act, which will make it easier for women to win pay 
discrimination cases and harder for companies to justify unequal 
salaries. Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to cosponsor this 
bill with me.

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