#PaycheckFairness empowers women to negotiate equal pay, incentivizes employers to obey laws,provides stronger tools to fight discrimination
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) January 29, 2013
Once again, Senator Reid and other Democrats are taking to Twitter to relentlessly use women, and to push agenda-driven lies.
appears @SenatorReid is again worried abt #paycheckfairness – has he corrected disparities in his own staff? #squirrel
— Kathy Neiheisel ?? (@5sahandful) January 29, 2013
Lady parts squirrel!
President Obama jumps into the mix, too. Of course, focusing on himself.
President Obama signed his first bill into law four years ago today: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. http://t.co/CYCcYe8i
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 29, 2013
All about Obama!
More hypocrites jump in with lies and hypocrisy to use women as pawns.
As we celebrate 4yr anniversary of @Lilly_Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, proud to cosponsor #PaycheckFairness b/c #women are NOT worth less. –PM
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) January 29, 2013
Great bkfast this AM w local female electeds on anniversary of @Lilly_Ledbetter. Proud to fight for #PaycheckFairness this session. #ma4
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) January 29, 2013
Ben-Same work, same hours, on avg women still make 23c less on the $ than men. We need #PayCheckFairness W/o women-families-equality suffer
— Senator Ben Cardin (@SenatorCardin) January 29, 2013
On this 4th anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, we must recommit ourselves to #equalpay! #PaycheckFairness pic.twitter.com/NmF5SZaM
— Rep. Gwen Moore (@RepGwenMoore) January 29, 2013
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Holding roundtable w/ women leaders in Flint, discussing #equalpay & need for Congress to pass #PaycheckFairness Act pic.twitter.com/dMCDWQVj
— Rep. Dan Kildee (@RepDanKildee) January 29, 2013
4 years after Lilly #Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law, pay inequity persists. It's time for #PaycheckFairness
— Frank R. Lautenberg (@FrankLautenberg) January 29, 2013
Happy warriors point out the glaring hypocrisy: What about your own female staffers, Democrats?
OK, @SenatorReid how about lead by example and start with your female staffers. You're a total hypocrite. #RESIGN
— Clint Goodrich (@Clint_Goodrich) January 29, 2013
You see, while the old pay gap myth has been put to rest time and time again, it does exist in some places. Namely, Democrat offices.
Of the five senators who participated in Wednesday’s press conference—Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.), Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.)—three pay their female staff members significantly less than male staffers.
Murray, who has repeatedly accused Republicans of waging a “war a women,” is one of the worst offenders. Female members of Murray’s staff made about $21,000 less per year than male staffers in 2011, a difference of 35.2 percent.
That is well above the 23 percent gap that Democrats claim exists between male and female workers nationwide.
Whoops!
http://t.co/mvAAZ04i MT @SenatorBarb This week ill continue to fight for #PaycheckFairness. It's time for equal pay 4 equal work
— Jim Jamitis ???? (@JimJamitis) January 27, 2013
Are you still paying your female staffers 30% less? http://t.co/mvAAZ04i @SenatorCardin #PayCheckFairness
— Jim Jamitis ???? (@JimJamitis) January 23, 2013
Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) paid men $13,063 more, a difference of 23 percent.
Other notable Senators whose “gender pay gap” was larger than 23 percent:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)—47.6 percent
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D., N.M.)—40 percent
Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.)—34.2 percent
Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.)—31.5 percent
Sen. Tom Carper (D., Del.)—30.4 percent
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.)–29.7 percent
Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.)–29.2 percent
Sen. Bill Nelson (D., Fla.)—26.5 percent
Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore)—26.4 percent
Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa)—23.2 percent
Just ask @SenatorCardin's female staffers… RT @YDAMidAtlantic: 50 years later, women still are paid less: http://t.co/GJwy3EPs #EqualPay
— Red Maryland (@RedMaryland) January 24, 2013
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/296294113651851264
That’s right. Female Obama staffers are paid less as well.
.@donnabrazile And yet four years later, Obama still pays his female WH staffers less than their male counterparts. #hypocrite
— Gregimus (@murgatr0id) January 29, 2013
His binders full of women aren’t as valuable as his binders full of men.
Paycheck fairness? Start in your own house, Democrats.
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