Reid Calls Out New York Times On Senate Floor For Firing Jill Abramson

CAITLIN MACNEAL – MAY 15, 2014, 5:56 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Thursday mentioned former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson when discussing pay equity legislation on the Senate floor.

Abramson was fired from the Times on Wednesday, spurring reports that she was dismissed after she approached management about earning less then her male predecessor, Bill Keller.

“It should not be lost that Republican senators are continuing their agenda by just saying no. Whether it’s something as logical and as important as pay equity, so that a woman doing the same job as a man gets the same amount of money," Reid said on Thursday.

"Look what happens, it appears, in the New York Times. The woman that ran that newspaper was fired yesterday. Why? It’s now in the press because she complained she was doing the same work as men in two different jobs and made a lot less money than they did. That’s why we needed that legislation," he continued.

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