| H/T Texan4Hillary Well, how nice. According to the Hill, Harry Reid will use passage of the Fair Pay Check Act to "extend an olive branch" to Senate Republicans, in the dreamy, wonderfulness of Obama's bipartisan spirit. Reid again denied Republicans a chance to offer amendments on the first bill to hit the floor this year, a public lands bill opposed by Senate conservatives. The Democratic leader made a peace offering this week, however, by allowing Republicans a chance to amend the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, legislation that would overturn a Supreme Court decision restricting equal-pay lawsuits that created stark partisan divisions last year. The goodwill gesture comes as Obama calls for more cooperation in government.
So no bipartisan spirit for public lands but a little thing like a woman's right to sue her employer over equal pay issues, that's fair game for Republican efforts to weaken the law. Thanks, Harry. |