[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5328]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               NEW YORK IS NUMBER ONE IN CLOSING THE GAP

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, think all the way 
back to New Year's Day--94 days ago--and contemplate for just a moment 
the fact that if a full-time working woman were to take all of the 
money she made between way back then and today, and she added that to 
what she had made working all of last year, well, she just now would 
have an amount equal to what a typical man made just last year. Well, 
welcome to Equal Pay Day.
  The exact size of the gender pay gap can vary. It tends to be smaller 
when you are younger, worse when you are older, and worse still if you 
are a woman of color. Even where you choose to live can make a 
difference.
  My thanks to the Democratic staff of the Joint Economic Committee, 
where I sit as the ranking member, for producing a new report that 
updates all these numbers, as well as State-by-State numbers on the 
gender wage gap.
  I encourage all my colleagues to take a look at this report to see 
just how your State is doing. The best news I read all day was that New 
York State is number one. That was good news.

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