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Related: About this forumAfter GOP Blocks Pay Equity, Sen. Mikulski Calls On Women To Start A ‘New American Revolution'
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After GOP Blocks Pay Equity, Sen. Barbara Mikulski Calls On Women To Start A New American Revolution
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Jun 5, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Immediately after the Paycheck Fairness Act failed to get enough votes to avoid a filibuster in the Senate today, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), clearly fed up, gave a rousing speech aimed at women across the country who are equakly angry at being under-paid and treated as unequal citizens.
Taking the floor as soon as the measure failed, Mikulski, who reintroduced the bill last week, shouted, Were going to foment our own revolution:
I say to the women out there in America, lets keep this fight going. Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and lets fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and lets end wage discrimination in this century once and for all.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/06/05/495447/mikulski-pay-equity-revolution/
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 05: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) and Lily Ledbetter hold a news conference at the U.S. Captiol June 5, 2012 in Washington, DC. Despite strong support from President Barack Obama, a bill sponsored by Mikulski that calls for equal pay in the workplace was blocked by Senate Republicans. Ledbetter, a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubbers plant in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1979 until her retirement in 1998, sued the company for paying her significantly less than her male counterparts. She lost her case, which went to the Supreme Court, but inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 05: Lily Ledbetter speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Captiol June 5, 2012 in Washington, DC.
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After GOP Blocks Pay Equity, Sen. Mikulski Calls On Women To Start A ‘New American Revolution' (Original Post)
Kadie
Jun 2012
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LOVE Senator Mikulski. I watched her speech live and hoped a video would come out.
lamp_shade
Jun 2012
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I love Barbara and her political stance, but "revolution" is a dangerous word.
HopeHoops
Jun 2012
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Worried senior
(1,328 posts)1. I really like that woman,
she tells it like it is. Shame on the republican women that voted against it.
lamp_shade
(14,796 posts)2. LOVE Senator Mikulski. I watched her speech live and hoped a video would come out.
I'm posting this on facebook.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)3. Women are the New Moral Majority.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)4. I love Barbara and her political stance, but "revolution" is a dangerous word.