Paycheck Fairness Act Blocked Again By Senate GOP

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Source: HUFF POST

Senate Republicans on Monday blocked for the fourth time a bill that would strengthen federal equal pay laws for women.

The Paycheck Fairness Act would ban employers from retaliating against employees who share salary information with each other, impose harsher penalties for pay discrimination and require employers to be able to show that wage gaps between men and women are based on factors other than gender.

The bill needed 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster and advance to a final vote on passage, but it fell short Monday by a vote of 52 to 40. Senate Democrats have brought the bill to the floor four times since 2011, and each time Republicans have rejected it.

"The wage gap not only hurts our families, it hurts the economy," Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said before the vote. "If it were reversed, I'd be standing here fighting for the men. It's not right."

Republicans say they oppose the bill because they believe it would discourage employers from hiring women, out of a fear of lawsuits. The GOP has accused Democrats of staging a "show vote" on the bill in an election year, knowing it won't pass.

"At a time when the Obama economy is already hurting women so much, this legislation would double down on job loss, all while lining the pockets of trial lawyers," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said before the last vote on the bill in April. "In other words, it's just another Democratic idea that threatens to hurt the very people that it claims to help."

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[Stuart G]

1. Maybe this will help get some of our people elected..

Let us hope so....

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Of course it was blocked. It always has been & it always will be, in todays radical Republican Party

[Andy823]

3. Another reason

To make damn sure we get out and vote so we can fire these do nothing jerks who only care about the rich and to hell with everyone else. The more democrats we put in office the better chances we have of getting things done, even if some of them don't always vote the way we think they should, larger numbers will help get things passed.

If you want change vote in the primaries and support the candidate you think will work for the people, but not voting in the general election because your candidate did not win, only helps the republicans.

[Orsino]

4. Their masters are why we can't have nice things. n/t