Support AlterNet
Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation.
Feedback
Tell us how we're doing.
Hooray: Obama Signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act
Today, President Barack Obama signed his first major piece of legislation, boosting workers’ ability to bring pay-discrimination lawsuits. Also at the ceremony with Obama was Lilly Ledbetter, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top women in government. From Obama’s remarks during the East Room signing ceremony.
And I sign this bill for my daughters, and all those who will come after us, because I want them to grow up in a nation that values their contributions, where there are no limits to their dreams and they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers never could have imagined.
Watch it:
President George W. Bush’s first piece of legislation didn’t come until Feb. 16: a resolution honoring Ronald Reagan’s 90th birthday.
Tagged as: obama, women's rights, legislation, fair pay
Amanda Terkel is deputy research director at the Center for American Progress and serves as deputy editor for the Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
| Also in Rights and Liberties | |||
| Jon Stewart on Swiss Minaretaphobia Amidst call for even more intolerance. Post by Staff. December 4, 2009. |
10 Companies to Avoid This Holiday Season Yes, there's Wal-Mart, but also a bunch of surprises, too. Post by Tara Lohan. December 4, 2009. |
Sweden Cutting Aid to Uganda Over 'Appalling' Anti-Homosexuality Bill Although the U.S. has not yet taken an official position on the bill, other countries are speaking out. Post by Amanda Terkel. December 3, 2009. |
|
EMAIL
PRINT
4 COMMENTS
PERMALINK