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• May 25, 2012 as the Senate prepares to debate the merits of S. 3220, a bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in reguards to equal pay for women, 'The Women of the Senate' held a news conference on May 23, 2012 urging the Republicans to join them in the spirit of bipartisanship to pass the bill. But during the news conference on May 23, 2012 many of these women Democratic Senators including Senators Murray (WA) and Boxer (CA) accused Republicans of unequal pay practices towards women when in fact the Democrats themselves have not been paying their women staffers the same as men.

  Read the whole story at Freebacon.com.

  Senator Murray, who has often accused Republicans of waging a 'war on women' turns out to be one of the worst offenders, she pays her female staffers about $21,000 less per year than her male staffers...that is a difference of 35%.  Senator Boxer's female staffers earned less than $5,000 or 7% than the male staffers. It seems the worst offender of the 'gender pay gap' is the Democratic-Socialist Senator from Vermont who employes 4 more men than women and pays them on average 47% more money than his women staffers.  Remember to a Marxist what  is or is not FAIR is only determined by other Marxists....ha...ha!
• May 24, 2012 the Senate debated the following Amendments to S.3187 - The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act Sponsored by Democratic Senator Tom Harkin was passed thru the Senate without any additional Amendments on a bipartisan roll call vote of 96-1-3 with only the Democratic-Socialist from Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders voting against the Bill. Senator Sanders said on his web site, "The most pressing prescription drug issue in our country today is that Americans pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for their medicine and millions of people cannot afford the medications their doctors prescribe.  I voted against this bill because it does far too little to address this crisis while it perpetuates a prescription drug system that continues to fail the American people".  Senator Sanders had the worst results today with only 7 of his fellow 'Democratic-Socialists'...err...Democrats and only one Republican (John McCain) voting for his proposed Amendment. Senator Rand Paul's Amendment failed to reach the Senate Floor for a roll call vote and was desposed by the Democrat majority quickly with a 'Table' Motion without gaining a single Democrat roll call vote to proceed forward for debate.
  
  In other matters S.2343 the "Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012" Sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was 'Rejected' on a roll call vote of 51-43-6 when it failed to meet the 60 vote threshold needed to pass. This 'Progressive' piece of legislation earned 49 Democrat roll call votes with Senator James Webb (VA) being the only Democrat to vote against the Bill. S.2343 failed to earn one Republican vote in the affirmative while Senator Snowe (MA) seemed to think it was a good time to vote 'Present'.
  

  Amendment	Sponsor	Image Link	Party Percent	Cloture	President Votes	Roll Call Vote	Result	Dem Yeas	Dem Nays	Dem Maj	Rep  Yeas	Rep Nays	Rep Maj	Fem Yeas	Fem Nays	Fem Maj
  S.Admt.2111	Senator Bingaman		91%	93%	50%	28-67-5	Rejected	24	25	-1	3	41	-38	6	9	-3
  S.Admt.2107	Senator McCain		85%	43%	75%	43-54-3	Rejected	26	24	2	16	29	-13	9	7	2
  S.Admt.2109	Senator Sanders		90%	93%	25%	9-88-3	Rejected	7	43	-36	1	44	-43	0	16	-16
  S.Admt.2108	Senator Murkowski		68%	43%	100%	46-50-4	Rejected	35	15	20	9	35	-26	13	3	10
  S.Amdt.2127 (Table)	Senator Durbin		98%	100%	75%	77-20-3	Agreed to	31	19	12	45	0	45	0	16	-16
  S.Amdt.2143 (Table)	Senator Paul		79%	29%	50%	78-15-7	Agreed to	47	0	47	29	15	14	13	1	12