Musical Chairs in the US Senate

By on October 9, 2009 in Education, Fair Pay Act, health, Labor and Pensions

In the alphabet soup which is our federal government, the US Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is known as HELP (which some might find an apt description of what is needed in Washington). The powerful committee chairman had been, for many years, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who had promoted many important causes such as early childhood education, paid sick days, paid family leave, and most recently, health care reform. This position will now be taken by Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who is a champion of pay equity and the author of the Fair Pay Act. The (Wo)man in Washington will be watching…..

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Valerie Young is a public policy analyst who is mad as hell about the status of women in the United States and is doing her part to promote social justice by arming mothers with information and a healthy dose of outrage. She works for the NAMC as the Advocacy Coordinator of their MOTHERS initiative. Follow her on Twitter @WomanInDC and on Facebook as Valerie Young and Your (Wo)Man in Washington.
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