"Ultimately, equal pay isn't just an economic issue for millions of Americans and their families, it's a question of who we are -- and whether we're truly living up to our fundamental ideals; whether we'll do our part, as generations before us, to ensure those words put on paper some 200 years ago really mean something -- to breathe new life into them with a more enlightened understanding that is appropriate for our time."
-- President Obama (I still can't believe I actually get to say that phrase) on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, the first bill he signed into law.
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