white house right now, the fair pay act, it does seem that democrats and the president want to talk about anything in washington right now except obamacare. well, did he talk about obamacare when he had the seven million mark and what they re doing today and a lot of emphasis, this is the white house and the democrats in coronation, talking about equal pay that s rallying the female base which is usually a very strong part of the democratic family. and you just i think you can t look at all of this as one size fits all. in illinois after obama went to that deli in michigan, he went to chicago for fundraising, took out a lot of money there. the governor met him at the airport. he s saying if there are democrats that don t want the president s time, he s happy to take it. jon: and another politically charged bill has just been passed by the senate, extension of unemployment insurance benefits. it went to the house and it
and that s interesting particularly in the case of greg abbott. as attorney general he defended a state university in texas against a woman who was being paid less than her colleagues for the same work because he said the federal law, the lily ledbetter act, doesn t apply to state cases in texas. and so obviously he won that case and the woman didn t get any compensation for having been paid unequally for years. and he pays the women in his own office less in one of the eight states in the country that tonight have these laws to protect women statewide. obviously not protected. it has been a little while since we passed the fair pay act and basically what it allows women to do is it gives them a longer period of time to sue for gender based pay discrimination because essentially what happened to lily ledbetter she didn t know she was being discriminated against until many years later. she got her pension. when she went to the courts they said, sorry, you know, your time limit
president obama was elected in 2008 he came to washington with a democratic-controlled house and a democratic-controlled senate n. the two years where that held true in washington we got wall street reform, student loan reform, credit card reform, health care reform obviously. the fair pay act, expanding g.i. bill, reauthorized the children s health insurance program. expanded national service programs they fixed sentencing disparity for crack versus powder cocaine. the first responders bill p hate crimes act, the stark treaty between us and russia, repealed don t ask, don t tell, cash for clunkers and largest middle-class tax cuts ever. that was done in two years by the congress elected at the same time as president obama. then in the midterms republicans did well in 2010 and they took control of the house and john boehner became the speaker instead of nancy pelosi. since then, not a single
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while we ve been trying to avoid it, republicans are embracing the summer scandals as their newest strategy to diversify their party. that is the game plan straight from the nrcc spoikz woman s mouth. the best tools we have as republicans to recruit women candidates in this cycle are three democrats named bob filner, eliot spitzer and anthony weiner. who would defend these cheating, harassing donkeys. but these dudes and their poor choices do not constitute a democratic party war on women. we are not looking for an honest date, we re looking for good lawmakers, and by good, i mean those who work to ensure women have equal rights and access, let s compare the party record, shall we? let s start with equal pay. remember when the lily led better fair pay act of 2009 aimed at closing the gap between womens and men s wages.