Senate Blocks Pay Equity Bill, 53-44

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Since this wouldn't have passed in the House anyway, bringing this to a vote a third time in the Senate is almost as pathetic as the repeated House attempts to repeal Obamacare.

In any case, this is a flawed bill.  Not because I fear that it will be misimplemented in the way shua fears it will be, tho if it were to be it would be a major problem.  However, as intended, the major provision of this bill is reasonable, tho I think it won't accomplish as much proponents think it will.  However, some of its subsidiary portions, especially sections 5 and 7, are rather execrable provisions for such a short bill.  Section 5 establishes yet another boondoggle of an "education" program to hand out grants to teach girls and women negotiation skills.  These sorts of pork programs rarely accomplish anything meaningful except hand out money.  Section 7 is even more useless as all it does is establish the "Secretary of Labor’s National Award for Pay Equity in the Workplace".  I suppose it would make whoever gets it feel good, but it won't do anything to actually improve pay equity.