Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign clarified on Wednesday that the former Massachusetts governor supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill signed into law by President Obama that was opposed by many Republicans at the time.

“He supports pay equity and is not looking to change current law,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told Talking Points Memo.

The law — signed by Obama in 2009 and meant to stop women from getting paid less than men — gives more flexibility for workers to sue employees for wage discrimination. Republicans and groups like the National Association of Manufacturers argued at the time that the law would lead to unwarranted lawsuits.

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, while campaigning for president in 2008, came out against the bill.

“I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what’s being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems,” McCain said in 2008. ”This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system.”

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