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July 31, 2008 — Press Item
Equal pay for equal work.’ When we put the principle as bluntly as that, I doubt that anyone in America would disagree. It is a basic ideal of fairness: The value of work lies in a job well done, not in the gender of the worker.
July 22, 2008 — Press Item
I strongly welcome the news that the Bosnian Serb leader who helped to orchestrate the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic, has been arrested in Serbia.
July 2, 2008 — Press Item
Forty-four years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, a milestone in the constant struggle for equality for all.
June 25, 2008 — Press Item
Eighteen years ago next month, the first President Bush signed into law one of the most consequential pieces of civil rights legislation in recent memory.
June 25, 2008 — Press Item
Seventy years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act—a landmark piece of legislation that extended protections to millions of American workers and set the precedent for decades of Democratic efforts to uphold fairness in the workplace.
June 19, 2008 — Press Item
The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued almost three years before; but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that news of freedom reached the slaves of Texas...
June 12, 2008 — Press Item
Today’s decision represents yet another rebuke of the Administration’s deeply legally flawed process of detaining and trying enemy combatants.
June 10, 2008 — Press Item
Forty five years ago today, President Kennedy signed into law the landmark Equal Pay Act. It was a law founded on a powerful principle: that the value of work lies in a job well done, not in the gender of the worker.
April 28, 2008 — Press Item
Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is extremely disappointing. Restrictive voter identification laws result in registered voters being denied their right to vote, which is simply unacceptable.
April 22, 2008 — Press Item
Today on Equal Pay Day, we mark how far into the year a woman must work, on average, before equaling the amount of money earned by a man during the previous calendar year.
January 18, 2008 — Press Item
Nearly 40 years ago, in Memphis, Tennessee, an assassin’s bullet prematurely ended the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 18, 2007 — Press Item
Today the House is considering one of the most important human rights measures we have dealt with all year --- a bill related to the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian disaster, the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
September 21, 2007 — Press Item
Democrats continue to make a real difference in the lives of average Americans.
September 18, 2007 — Press Item
I am disappointed, but not discouraged by today’s vote in the Senate.
August 7, 2007 — Press Item
After seven months in office, House Democrats are addressing the priorities of the American people. We have passed significant legislation with bipartisan support, and we are making real progress on important issues in order to defend our country, restore the American dream, and achieve energy independence.
June 29, 2007 — Press Item
After just six months in office, House Democrats are keeping our promises and moving our nation in a new direction.
June 27, 2007 — Press Item
The 110th Congress is making progress on the American people’s priorities, despite intense opposition from President Bush and Rubberstamp Republicans on many issues.
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H.R. 1911 – Making College More Expensive Act