[Pacg] Contact your Senators about their vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

[Carolina 1961]

*From the Women's Issues Forum/ QC-NOW*
Carol Brown, qcnow at mchsi.com


Your Senators' Vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act   Take
Action!<http://capwiz.com/aauw/issues/alert/?alertid=11303576&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]>

Under heavy pressure from AAUW members and our coalition partners, the
Senate yesterday narrowly failed to pass a vote to move forward with the *Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (H.R. 2831)*. While the pure vote on the measure was
actually 57-41, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) changed his vote in a
procedural move that will allow him to bring the bill up again at a later
date. See how your senator
voted.<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2008-110>

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) called the vote "a call to arms" for the women
of America. A large majority of women identify equal pay for equal work as a
national priority. As we pass Equal Pay Day and continue our pay equity
efforts this month and throughout the year, AAUW believes Wednesday's vote
is a good way to measure a senator's support for pay equity in this election
year.


AAUW believes that the narrow legislative fix contained in the Ledbetter
Fair Pay Act would more justly allow victims of pay discrimination to seek
vindication, and AAUW and its members will not stop until the Senate gets it
right by adopting this critical measure.


Please write and thank the senators who supported the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
and urge them to continue to push for another vote on the bill. Express your
extreme disappointment to those senators who voted against the Ledbetter
bill, and urge them to support this and other pay equity legislation in the
future.
Take Action!

To contact your senators regarding their vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,
just click on the "Take Action" link in the upper right corner or copy and
paste the following URL into your Internet browser. Then, follow the
instructions to send a message to your U.S. senators.
http://capwiz.com/aauw/issues/alert/?alertid=11303576&type=CO
For this campaign, we encourage you to use the "See Me" feature of our
Two-Minute Activist to show your senator that you are the face of pay
equity. After you've drafted your message and completed the "Sender
Information," you'll find the "See Me" feature. Just click on "Include SEE
ME information," and follow the instructions to upload a digital picture of
yourself and attach it to your message to your senators. In the comment box
type in "I Am the Face of Pay Equity."


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