ACLU:

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - Weakening Amendment

Jan 22, 2009

Senate Roll call 7

Congress 111 Session 1

Failed: 40-55

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On January 22, 2009, the Senate defeated a weakening amendment to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (S. 181) offered by Senator Hutchison (R-TX) by a vote of 55 to 40. The ACLU opposed the Hutchison Amendment, which would have gutted the protections provided in the underlying legislation by forcing employees seeking to challenge pay discrimination to abide by the unfair rule set out in Ledbetter v. Goodyear unless they could prove that they had no reason to suspect pay discrimination. Instead of solving the problem the Ledbetter decision created, the Hutchison Amendment would have forced employees to rush to file complaints at any mere rumor of discrimination lest they lose their access to relief.

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Name	Party	State	Vote
Akaka, Daniel	Democrat	HI	(Nay)
Alexander, Lamar	Republican	TN	(Yea)
Barrasso, John	Republican	WY	(Yea)
Baucus, Max	Democrat	MT	(Nay)
Bayh, Evan	Democrat	IN	(Nay)
Begich, Mark	Democrat	AK	(Nay)
Bennett, Robert	Republican	UT	(Yea)
Bingaman, Jeff	Democrat	NM	(Nay)
Bond, Kit	Republican	MO	(Yea)
Boxer, Barbara	Democrat	CA	(Nay)

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