Why Does Harry Reid Hate Women?
From From the Left blog (awesome blog):
When the Supreme Court threw out a longstanding legal precedents and government practice to make it harder for an employee to sue over unlawful pay discrimination.
The 5-to-4 ruling came in the case of Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plant in Alabama, who over several years received smaller raises than men in comparable positions. A jury found that Goodyear violated Ms. Ledbetter’s rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But a majority of the Supreme Court decided she was entitled because her case was filed after the 180-day deadline for filing such claims. They decided that Ms. Ledbetter had to sue within 180 days of the company’s discriminatory raises and that the persistence of unfairness from check to check was not relevant.
The “Fair Pay Act” was sponsored by Sens. Edward Kennedy (MA) and Arlen Specter (TN) would redefine the deadline for making a charge of pay discrimination under Federal Title VII from when a worker receives unequal pay, not from the day a company first decided to discriminate, as the Supreme Court wrongly decided.
On Wednesday, the following Republican Senators and one Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, successfully killed the bill by filibuster. While no one is surprised that most GOP Senators hate women (including Republican women like Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Elizabeth Dole) but what’s Sen. Harry Reid’s excuse?
The following Senators killed the “Fair Pay Act”:
Alexander (R-TN), Allard (R-CO), Barrasso (R-WY), Bennett (R-UT), Bond (R-MO), Brownback (R-KS), Bunning (R-KY), Burr (R-NC), Chambliss (R-GA), Coburn (R-OK), Cochran (R-MS), Corker (R-TN), Cornyn (R-TX),Craig (R-ID), Crapo (R-ID), DeMint (R-SC), Dole (R-NC), Domenici (R-NM), Ensign (R-NV), Enzi (R-WY), Graham (R-SC), Grassley (R-IA), Gregg (R-NH), Hatch (R-UT), Hutchison (R-TX), Inhofe (R-OK), Isakson (R-GA), Kyl (R-AZ), Lugar (R-IN), Martinez (R-FL), McConnell (R-KY), Murkowski (R-AK), Reid (D-NV), Roberts (R-KS), Sessions (R-AL), Shelby (R-AL), Stevens (R-AK), Thune (R-SD), Vitter (R-LA), Voinovich (R-OH), Warner (R-VA), and Wicker (R-MS)
