{"id":193062,"date":"2009-01-23T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-act-passes-house\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:19:00","slug":"lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-act-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-act-passes-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Therw were some minor changes, so the law allowing a greater statute of limitations on ongoing pay discrimination <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/226\/story\/60554.html\">has to go back through the house<\/a>, but it appears headed to Obama&#8217;s desk in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2009\/01\/ledbetter_act_passes.html\">Kevin Drum notes<\/a>, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">All 56 voting Democrats supported the bill, and five Republicans joined in. Which ones? Arlen Specter plus all four of the women in the GOP caucus. Imagine that.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therw were some minor changes, so the law allowing a greater statute of limitations on ongoing pay discrimination has to go back through the house, but it appears headed to Obama&#8217;s desk in a matter of days. As Kevin Drum notes, &#8220;All 56 voting Democrats supported the bill, and five Republicans joined in. Which ones? &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,975,1020,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-employment","category-legislation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}