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Rubio defends Romney: Lilly Ledbetter Act ‘nothing but an effort to help trial lawyers’
Tea party-backed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday defended Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s refusal to say whether he would sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by suggesting that the law was not really about equal pay. Romney was widely mocked last week after he told a questionable story…
Bet You Wish You Hadn’t Made All Those Lawyer Jokes Now, Eh?
The Lilly Ledbetter Act has been passed by Congress, and is on its way to becoming President Obama’s first major piece of legislation signed into law. But the doors opening to pay equality aren’t all wine and roses, oh no: Republicans said the bill was unfair to employers. They will…
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