Katherine Clark: If We Pay Women Equally, that Is $900B Back into Our Economy

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CLARK: "You know, we’ve got our eye on what the American people sent us here to do and that is to make sure we protect our healthcare and expand quality care that is affordable to every American. That we rebuild and reinvest in our infrastructure and that we clean up our politics, get dark money out, protect that right to vote. Those are the issues that we are not only working on, but passing. We have HR-1 waiting at the door of the Senate for Mitch McConnell to say, 'Yes, we want to protect that right to vote.' We’ve already passed the Paycheck Fairness Act saying to women in this country, 'When you do equal work, you’re going to be paid equally.' That is $900 billion, if we pay women equally, back into our economy. We’ve already passed commonsense gun violence prevention that is supported by close to 97 percent of Americans across political ideologies. This is the work that we are doing. This is why we are proud to celebrate our accomplishments of the first 100 days and looking forward to the next 100."