Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- (applause) -- a bill that is not just for women.
For all his talk of fighting unemployment, President Obama has hurt future job creation by signing into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
The very first thing he did as President -- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women get equal pay for equal work.
We now have the Civil Rights Act, and in 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, signed into law by President Obama, against pay discrimination.
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Signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was one of his first acts as President and he has continued to call for additional legislation to equalize pay in the workplace.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill I signed as President, empowers women to recover wages lost to discrimination by extending the time period in which an employee can file a claim.
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He has declined to state whether he would have supported the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act, a bill to make challenging unequal pay easier for women, which passed the senate 61-36, but his running mate voted against it.
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That is why my Administration has made the needs of women and girls a priority since day one -- from signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to helping ensure women are represented among tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.
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From the first piece of legislation he signed in his first term, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to the first piece of legislation President Obama signed in his second term the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act .
And that is why the very first bill he signed as President -- the first thing he did -- was sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to make sure women get equal pay for equal work -- (applause) -- first thing he did.
Regardless, President Obama responded by highlighting the first bill he signed in 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which removed the previous 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit when a worker found out later that they had been unfairly discriminated against.
Mr. Obama noted that the first bill he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and put Mr. Romney on the spot over his opposition to funding for Planned Parenthood and his position on contraception access as detailed in Mr. Obama's health care law.
Citing steps from the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 -- the first bill he signed into law -- to expanded government loans for small businesses run by women to increased Pell grants for female college students, Obama said the November election represented a choice in future direction.
He routinely talks about the fact that the first piece of legislation he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, he made the so-called War on Women a central theme of his re-election campaign, and he paraded Sandra Fluke around as a poster girl for his agenda.
Shortly after taking office, the President signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is delivering relief to working families across the country, including tax credits and child care assistance for working families.
From signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law and creating the White House Council on Women and Girls to combatting sexual assault and promoting women's economic and political empowerment at home and abroad, we have worked to ensure women have the opportunities they need and deserve at every stage of their lives.
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And that is why the first bill he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women get equal pay for equal work. (Applause.) And that is why he will always, always fight to ensure that we as women can make our own decisions about our bodies and about our health care.
In a sign of the sensitivity of the issue, Carney repeatedly emphasized Obama's policies on women, such as making the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act the first piece of legislation he signed into law.
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It's the impact of a White House and a Congress that fight for legislation like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, so that all women can get paid what they deserve. (Applause.) I'm very proud this was the very first bill that I signed into law.
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Which is why the first bill I signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Act -- Fair Pay Act -- (applause) -- to make it easier for women to demand fairness -- equal pay for equal work.
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