senator, coming up in about 15 minutes there s going to be a vote on the senate floor, long-term unemployment benefits extending them, making them ret retroactive. your call. what s going to happen? i believe, ed, and i knock on wood or whatever this thing is, that we are going to have the 60 votes that we need. we have finally gotten some republicans to come on board. this will provide insurance to some 2-plus million americans who are at the end of their rope, long-term unemployment remains a very, very serious problem. it s not only the right thing to do morally, it is the right thing to do economically. we ll put money into the hands of people who need it and we ll spend it. you think you have the 60, think they re there. i may be proven wrong in a few minutes but i do believe we e do. that will force the hand of boehner and we ll talk more about that later. senator bernie sanders, good to have you with us tonight. let me bring in michael from the l.a. times. there are
this is lamar alexander from tennessee. he says that the paycheck fairness bill would not help women make more money and would only result in more lawsuits. zerlina, what s your reaction to that? that s crap, right, because i think the bottom line here is that women need to know that they are not making the same as their co-worker. when i was in my early 20s, that exact thing happened to me. i was talking to a male co-worker who had the exact same job that i did and he was making more money. and that allowed me then to go to my boss. the lou would prohibit my employer from retaliating against me for that discussion, which i think every woman and every man would agree is a perfectly acceptable thing to be talking about. goldie, this executive order is only going to apply to 22% of the workforce of course as federal employees and not even half of that as women. what impact is this going to have? i think the real impact here is that those 1 in 5 americans
get on board and do it. zerlina, what about war on women? is that a player in 2014, the way it was against mitt romney? it was very clear and of course the paycheck fairness act and all of the abortion laws that have been attacked on a state level? yes. is this something that should have some resource behind it from the left? i think so. i mean, i think that certainly we have women s groups but i think progressive organizations and superpac money need to go to messaging to young single women who are more likely to vote democrat but may not consistently vote to the base. yes, absolutely. because 77 cents to the dollar is the average. and, you know, particularly in areas where there is strong union, strong unions, that gap closes. so i think that democrats are on the right side of this historically and right now and we need to push that so single and young women go out and vote in november because we can make a difference. zerlina maxwell, goldie taylor, thanks so much.
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voting record when it comes to turnout, 170,000 members. they re an organization of 130 years. they went down to arkansas recently and got mark pryor to sign on as a co-sponsor of the paycheck fairness act. i want both of your reaction to this. is this a winning issue at the polls? is this going to motivate women to say, hey, look, republicans, independents, conservatives aren t doing it for me? they re not the warriors for the women on this when it comes to pay? what do you think, zerlina? yes, because there are 400,000 reasons why. 400,000 is the number of lifetime earnings that women are losing. i mean, literally our wages are being stripped from us. i don t want to retire and not have the same amount of money as someone who did the exact same job as we monopoly $400,000 means women would be lifted out of poverty when they retire because the largest number of people in poverty are women. so i think that, you know, 400,000 reasons is definitely a reason whether i m a republican or