Republicans Quotes

Passing legislation like this will discourage lending. This comes at a particularly bad time when consumers and our economy have already had enough stress to deal with. It's not wise policy to create a consumer credit crunch at the same time that our economy is experiencing a commercial credit crunch.

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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), CreditCards.com.

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.....This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system.

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John McCain on the campaign trail.
321405/28/2008 | Full Details | Law(s): Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

[Women] need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them....It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least.

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John McCain on the campaign trail.
321505/28/2008 | Full Details | Law(s): Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) quoted in “How Dumb Are We? How long will women shoulder the blame for the pay gap?” in Slate.
321204/26/2008 | Full Details | Law(s): Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

[The Ledbetter Act would] impede justice and undermine the important goal of having allegations of discrimination expeditiously resolved.

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The Bush administration threatened to veto the act if it passed the Senate. Slate.com.
321304/26/2008 | Full Details | Law(s): Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

Why now? This is the wrong time to pass this bill that will send more businesses out of New Jersey. Maybe at the right time, in the right economy, this would be the right bill.

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State Senator Christopher "Kip" Bateman (R). The Newark Star-Ledger

New Jersey is anti-business. This bill creates even more of an anti-business climate. ... It's one more mandate, one more tax, one more reason for the move to Pennsylvania.

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Republican State Senator Kevin O'Toole. The Bergen County Record.

It's very possible the paid leave will only be used by the prosperous, who can afford to go without any pay for five weeks or more. In essence, this program could be funded by the poor working-class folks to give the more prosperous a benefit. Democrats know this program won't be used by those that need it the most.

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Washington House Republican Bruce Chandler, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
303403/04/2008 | Full Details | Law(s): Washington Family Leave Act

Not from my point of view….[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, CNN's The Situation Room.
285412/19/2007 | Full Details | Law(s): Universal Healthcare

It should occur at the national level and not at the state level. My concern about paid family leave in New Jersey is it will make us uncompetitive with other states such as Pennsylvania.

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New Jersey Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance (R).The Associated Press State & Local Wire.

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