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.精品文档. 公司团支部换届改选竞职演讲vegot some resistance from some folks on this issue up oncapitol hill just fitswith this larger problem, this vision that the congressional republicansseemto be continually embracing this notion that, you know what, youre just onyour own, nomatter how unfair things are. you see it in their budget. thebudget the republicans incongress just put forward last week, its like a badrerun. it would give massive tax cutstohouseholds making more than a million dollars a year, force deep cuts to thingsthat actuallyhelp working families like early education and college grants andjob training.and, of course, it includes thatnovel idea of repealing the affordable care act. (laughter.)fiftieth time theyve tried that which would mean the more than 7million americans whovedone the responsible thing and signed up to buy healthinsurance, theyd lose their healthinsurance; and the 3 million young adultswhove stayed on their parents plan, theyd nolonger have that available;take us back to the days when insurers could charge women morejust for being awoman.on minimum wage, three out of fouramericans support raising the minimum wage. usuallywhen three out of four americans support something, members ofcongress are right there. (laughter.) and yet here, republicans in congress aredead set against it, blocking a pay raisefor tens of millions of americans a majority of them women. this isntjust about treatingwomen fairly. thisis about republicans seemingly opposing any efforts to even the playingfieldfor working families.and i was up in michigan lastweek and i just asked i dont understand fully the theorybehind this. i dont know why you would resist the ideathat women should be paid the same asmen, and then deny that thats not alwayshappening out there. if republicans incongress wantto prove me wrong, if they want to show that they, in fact, docare about women being paid thesame as men, then show me. they can start tomorrow. they can join us in this, the 21stcentury,and vote yes on the paycheck fairness act. (applause.) vote yes.and if anybody is watching orlistening, if you care about this issue, then let your senatorsknow where youstand because america deserves equal pay for equal work.this is not something were goingto achieve in a day. theres going to bea lot of stuff thatweve got to do to close the pay gap. we got to make it possible for more women toenter highpaying fields that up until now have been dominated by men, likeengineering and computerscience. womenhold less than 6 percent of our countrys commercial patents thats notgoodenough. we need more parents and highschool teachers and college professors encouraginggirls and women to studymath and science. we need morebusinesses to make gender diversitya priority when they hire and when theypromote. fewer than five percent offortune 500companies have women at the helm.i think wed all agree that weneed more women in congress. (applause.) fewer than 20percent of congressional seats are held by women. clearly, congress would get more done iftheratio was (laughter) evened out a little bit. so weve got to work on that.and weve all got to do more tomake our workplaces more welcoming to women. becausethe numbers show that even when men and women are in the sameprofession and have thesame education, theres still a wage gap, and it widensover time. so were going to keepmakingthe case for why these policies are the right ones for working families this is all going tolead up to this firstever white house summit on working families onjune 23rd.so, ultimately, equal pay is notjust an economic issue for millions of americans and theirfamilies. its also about whether were willing tobuild an economy that works for everybody,and whether were going to do ourpart to make sure that our daughters have the same chancesto pursue theirdreams as our sons, and whether or not were willing to restore to the heartofthis country that basic idea you can make it, no matter who you are, if youtry.and thats personal for me. ive said this before ive got twodaughters and i expect themto be treated just like anybodys sons. and i think about my single mom working hard,going toschool, trying to raise two kids all at the same time. and i think about my grandmother tryingtowork her way up through her career and then hitting the glass ceiling. and ive seen howhard theyve worked, and iveseen how theyve sucked it up. and theyput up with stuff andthey dont say anything, and they just take care of theirfamily and they take care ofthemselves, and they dont complain a lot. but at a certain point, we have the power todosomething about it for the next generation. and this is a good place to start.so, for everybody out there whoslistening, ask your senator where you stand on paycheckfairness. (applause.) if they tell you that th