[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4419]
[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, this week, we marked Equal Pay 
Day, which is the day more than 3 months into the year when women's 
earnings finally catch up to men's from the previous year.
  Mr. Speaker, it all adds up--$430,000. That is how much the average 
income loss is for a woman throughout her career as a result of this 
unfair wage gap. This means our mothers and our grandmothers get less 
for their retirement security, and there are more of them in poverty.
  Inequality hurts the heart and it hurts the pocketbook. It hurts 
women and their families. That is why we need paycheck fairness, 
affordable child care, paid family leave, and retirement security.
  When women succeed, America succeeds.

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