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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2019, 08:32 AM Mar 2019

GOP lawmaker suggests female colleague 'misunderstands' equal pay legislation

BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 03/28/19 10:00 PM EDT

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) suggested Wednesday that a Democratic female colleague did not understand language surrounding equal pay legislation.

Byrne was trying to propose an amendment to the Paycheck Fairness Act, which aims to eliminate gender-pay discrimination and was co-sponsored by Rep. Susan Wild (D-Penn.).

Byrne said he doesn't think Wild “understands what that language actually means and how it’s been interpreted by the courts and how it may be totally misinterpreted against plaintiffs in these types of lawsuits,” according to HuffPost.

“I do think that she misunderstands both the amendment and the underlying bill,” Byrne said later.