{"id":557924,"date":"2021-06-09T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557924"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:36:18","slug":"republicans-stonewall-paycheck-fairness-act-over-employer-burdens-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-stonewall-paycheck-fairness-act-over-employer-burdens-redundancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Stonewall \u2018Paycheck Fairness Act\u2019 Over Employer Burdens, Redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-stonewall-paycheck-fairness-act-over-employer-burdens-redundancy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320041023-scaled-e1623245640645.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican senators stonewalled a Democratic \u201cgender wage gap\u201d bill due to concerns that the bill was \u201credundant\u201d and would burden small businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/biden-rejects-capito-republicans-infrastructure-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Republicans<\/a> used the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/donald-trump-joe-manchin-right-thing-opposing-end-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filibuster<\/a> Tuesday to kill the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have had businesses prove disparages in pay between women and men were the result of \u201cjob performance\u201d rather than gender, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/08\/gender-pay-gap-senate-republicans-492316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was voted down 49-50, failing to garner the needed 60 votes to advance.<\/p>\n<p>The filibuster marks the second time Republicans have used the tactic during the Biden administration, with the first filibuster used to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/senate-republicans-first-filibuster-bidens-presidency-kill-january-6-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stop a commission<\/a> from being formed to investigate the events of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.197080291971\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every Senate Republican voted to block a debate on Democrats\u2019 Paycheck Fairness legislation aimed at shrinking the gender pay gap.<\/p>\n<p>60 votes were needed to overcome their filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Roll call vote: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nw2WGjsos1\">pic.twitter.com\/nw2WGjsos1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenTDennis\/status\/1402458292555812865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill would have additionally barred employers from retaliating against workers who shared salary information and would also have authorized a grant program to train women on salary negotiation and wage discrimination, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>Most Republicans voiced concern about the burden the law would bring on businesses, and stated that gender discrimination was already illegal, according to Politico. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/senate-dems-amendment-human-animal-chimera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Senate Democrats Vote Down Amendment That Would Have Banned Certain Human-Animal Hybrid Experiments)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good bill,\u201d Republican North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr told Politico. \u201cWe have three statutes on the books that don\u2019t allow pay discrepancy today. We need a fourth one?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.7166666666667\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked debate on a bill to combat pay discrimination against women and LGBTQ workers, the first in a series of votes set up by Democratic leaders this month to highlight the power of the filibuster. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Msc81jPf6e\">https:\/\/t.co\/Msc81jPf6e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1402417687351934976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some Senate Democrats have sought to kill the filibuster in the hopes of boosting their chances of passing much of their agenda, however several Democrats, including Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/manchin-not-eliminate-weaken-filibuster-durbin-infrastructure-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly rebuked the idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senators stonewalled a Democratic \u201cgender wage gap\u201d bill due to concerns that the bill was \u201credundant\u201d and would burden small businesses.Senate Republicans used the filibuster Tuesday to kill the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279729,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320041023-scaled-e1623245640645.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Stonewall \u2018Paycheck Fairness Act\u2019 Over Employer Burdens, Redundancy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320041023-scaled-e1623245640645.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Stonewall \u2018Paycheck Fairness Act\u2019 Over Employer Burdens, Redundancy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}