Posted on 08/25/2007 10:38:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/24/2007 Pelosi Statement on Women’s Equality Day
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today commemorating Women’s Equality Day, the 87th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Women’s Equality Day will be celebrated on Sunday, August 26:
“On this Women’s Equality Day, we honor the suffragettes and pioneers who blazed the trail for all American women. It was their tenacity and sacrifice that paved the way for me to proudly take the gavel as the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives in January. But as I said at the time, we have made history, now we must make progress.
“There is still significant work to be done to achieve true equality for women here and around the world. In Congress, equality in representation of elected officials is still a goal to which we aspire, as women make up only 16 percent of the House and 16 percent of the Senate.
“Health care is a basic right that too many women and their children lack. The House recently passed the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act, to reauthorize the State Children’s Insurance program and extend critically needed health care coverage to 6 million children. Yet the President has threatened to veto this critical legislation for low-income women and their families.
“The right to equal pay for equal work is a fundamental value, yet women still earn 77 cents for every dollar men make, and the Supreme Court ruled to deny a woman redress after the fact in a case of pay discrimination. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act passed by the House will ensure that women, indeed all workers subject to pay discrimination, will have all resources available, especially the protections of civil rights law, to ensure their right to fair pay.
“We must remain vigilant in the fight for equality for women. Those who came before us would expect no less. Let us honor our history and their sacrifice by continuing through our voices and our actions to support our sisters throughout the nation and the world until true equality is no longer a goal, but a reality.”
When she donned that hajab, on her trip to Syria, she forfeited her stand on Women’s rights and progressiveness.
I didn't know this. Just flipped through my copy of The Constitution and found no mention whatsoever.
Any politician who says healthcare is a “basic right” should have to explain why they continue to allow doctors and hospitals to bill people for it.
What the heck is “Womens Equality Day?”
Yeah. Everybody knows that women are MORE equal! ;O)
Pelosi is SUCH a good role model for women’s equality, especially after kowtowing to the Muslims in the Mideast by wearing a headscarf.
"What Habib?"
“When she donned that hajab, on her trip to Syria, she forfeited her stand on Women’s rights and progressiveness.”
That’s exactly what I was thinking. She shut her big, fat, stupid mouth and towed the islamoscum line, quietly submitting to their oppression. She’s an asshat.
This woman could issue a press release about cheese doodles and still find a way to somehow bash Bush.
lol
What a stinking pile of horse dung!!
“What the heck is “Womens Equality Day?”
didnt you get the Memo?
Don your Burqua and bow 5 times towards Mecca DC...
THIS NEEDS A BARF ALERT!!!!!!
LOL
If there is a holiday involved; I am for it.
Pelosi was invented to make euthanasia sound good. Argh!
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