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Last Tuesday, congressional champions for working families reintroduced key bills that would update and strengthen America's fair pay laws. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would amend the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and that saw considerable action last Congress. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced their Fair Pay Act, a bill designed to address the occupational segregation that can exacerbate the pay gap.

These bills were reintroduced on Equal Pay Day. This unhappy "holiday" represents the day when women finally catch up to what men made, on average, in the previous calendar year.

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