The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act managed to close a significant loophole in laws against workplace discriminiation in just 26 pages of text. Sadly, Christopher Lee voted against that anti-discrimination legislation. Was it because he couldn’t read those 26 pages?
The following are graphs showing the frequency distribution of bill cosponsorship in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate as of February 13, 2009. Cosponsorship is the signing of a member of Congress’ name to a bill, an act that formally indicates support for the bill. The x-axis in each graph represents [...]
For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.
It’s fair to say that, if John McCain had been elected President, he would have used his power to veto the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and frustrated the ability of workers to seek compensation when they are discriminated against.
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