Senate Passes the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

Thursday, January 22, 2009, the US Senate passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by a vote of 61 to 36. This is an important victory for women in particular because in 2007, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Lilly Ledbetter in the case of Lilly Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
This ruling left women without legal standing to fight against pay discrimination. President Obama has already pledged to sign the bill into law.

Included are two links to the National Women's Law Center, where you can find out more about the passage of this very important bill.

http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3441§ion=newsroom

http://www.nwlc.org/fairpay/senatevote012209.html

There's also a link for you to find out how your senators voted:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00014

I'd like to thank Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell publicly for their "yea" votes from my part of the world.

Editor of AGNADL