This comprehensive and common sense bill updates and strengthens the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work.
So, yes, this is a common-sense bill.
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Lawmakers are furiously trying to find common ground on a bill that will reduce foreclosures, and earlier this week, Paulson unveiled a lofty plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system.
If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you'll see more of them doing it.
We're trying to find some common ground on getting a bill that I can sign.
Keith Ashdown of the group Taxpayers for Common Sense also criticized the bill.
However, Clinton said he would support a "common sense" product liability bill.
Assuming it makes sense to create a workplace cause of action for intentionally inflicted emotional distress that does not meet the requirements of the common law tort, this bill, with its ill-defined and hopelessly broad restrictions on workplace conduct was not the measure to do it.
Garry Wills has argued, after all, that Irish Catholic ideas about sin that sin is negotiable currency, to be practiced, done penance for, forgiven allowed John Kennedy some serenity as he screwed his way through the White House typing pool, just as the habits of Protestant Evangelical belief, in forgiveness and temptation and forgiveness, in a never-ending cycle, helped Bill Clinton find a common language with working-class people.
In 1601 a bill "against usual and common swering" was introduced to the House of Commons, but failed to attract enough support from MPs.
And as online bill-payment becomes more common, direct transfers out of bank accounts may also be used more widely for other purchases on the Internet.
Earlier this week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a ton of data showing what hospitals across the country bill for the 100 most common medical procedures billed to Medicare.
And I don't think there is any doubt that I and Bill have been part of that common purpose and that struggle our entire adult lives.
"Buying products over the Internet with a credit card has become a common occurrence, but viewing the credit card bill itself and submitting a payment to settle it electronically is still considered a novelty, " Albert Pang, research manager for IDC's eCommerce Software program, said in a statement.
When SNP MSP, Nigel Don asked whether properties considered to have common good legal status should be exempted from this bill, both Edinburgh and Glasgow city councils agreed it would be helpful.
While mobile phone bills that amount to tens of thousands of dollars are certainly the exception, "bill shock" appears to be a relatively common occurrence.
It makes no sense when you consider that this bill was made up of the same kinds of common-sense proposals that many of these Senators have fought for in the past.
We also saw it when Democrats and Republicans in the House came together to pass a bill that will force insurance companies to abide by common-sense rules that prevent price-fixing and other practices that drive up health care costs.
Similarly, the bill dealt with ensuring that services for patients with less common conditions were provided.
The common wisdom seems to be that while things worked out peachy for Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, the majority would do better to stick with that Wall Street or McKinsey job.
Hence, it was fairly common to see free-market intellectuals write books even under Bill Clinton arguing that the economy was doing better than people thought.
Fee disputes are common in these cases, where the client is sticking somebody else with the bill.
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But a common complaint among users is the sticker shock that they get after seeing the bill once the ride is over.
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After the Commons vote, minister without portfolio Ken Clarke, who is overseeing the bill's progress through Parliament, said its measures were "common sense".
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Rather than helping small businesses with common-sense solutions to make health care more affordable, the Democrats' bill actually creates a climate that destroys jobs and does nothing to slow the cost-shifting to businesses and employees that is one of the fundamental problems with health care in our country today.
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Again, we hope this is a process that because of the sheer nature of how much in these bills are -- these bills have in common, that this is a process that we can conclude and ultimately get a bill quickly to the President's desk.
After the American farm bill last year, and the EU's anaemic efforts to reform its common agricultural policy, the Doha round had looked set to fail.
The new bill will make it harder for individuals to declare Chapter 7, the most common form of bankruptcy, which allows debtors to walk away from their debts, often while shielding exempt assets like cars and homes.
Some observers have suggested that the decision to award service contracts, instead of the more common production-sharing contracts, was taken to make it easier to proceed without such a bill being passed.
President Obama upheld this bill as an example of the type of issue on which Republicans and Democrats can find common ground, and he pushed lawmakers to take action on other measures to aid veterans -- including his proposal for a Veterans Jobs Corps.
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