Well, that’s just special
The Democrats have been pushing the Paycheck Fairness Act for a while now as a plan to address the gender wage gap or whatever it’s beeing called these days. They’re planning on pushing ahead with it in the House yet again this week, but it’s basically dead on arrival in the Senate and President Trump would never sign it anyway. Problem solved, right? Nope. Never willing to leave well enough alone, the Republicans have cooked up their own gender equity something or other bill and it’s been put forward by New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. (Politico)
House Republicans are introducing their own legislation Tuesday to close the gender pay gap as the party battles criticism from Democrats that the GOP is anti-women.
The bill, which will be unveiled by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), comes ahead of a floor vote on a Democratic-backed bill dubbed the “Paycheck Fairness Act.”
Stefanik stood up during a GOP conference meeting on Tuesday morning to encourage lawmakers to back her alternative measure, which she is billing as a rebuttal to the Democrats’ legislation, according to lawmakers who attended the closed-door session.
