House votes to reverse Supreme Court on pay discrimination suits!

[babylonsister]

House votes to reverse court on pay discrimination suits

July 31, 2007

BY JESSE J. HOLLAND

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The House voted today to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision limiting the time that workers have to sue their employers for pay discrimination.

The Bush administration has threatened to veto the legislation, pushed almost entirely by Democrats.

The House voted 225-199 to effectively remove the statute of limitations for pay discrimination lawsuits for longtime company employees, repudiating a decision by the high court’s five most conservative justices.

“Discrimination has no place in our law, no place in our hearts and no place because of technicalities,” said Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J.

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on May 29 to throw out a Goodyear employee’s complaint that she earned thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts because of discrimination.

Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s plant in Gadsden, Ala., sued right before she retired. She ended a 19-year career making $6,500 less than the lowest-paid male supervisor, and said earlier decisions by her supervisors kept her from making more.

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070731/NEWS07/70731059

[bbgrunt]

1. I am sooooo happy to hear that they are spending

their time with this so * can veto it--instead of IMPEACHMRNT.

[AndyA]

2. Yes, IMPEACHMENT IS SUCH A WASTE OF TIME.

Why, no other legislation could be passed if they were working on IMPEACHMENT.

I'd like to know what the hell the difference is:

Congress + IMPEACHMENT = no new legislation

Congress + new legislation + Bush veto = no new legislation

In the end, which would benefit the American people and the Constitution most?

IMPEACH THE SOB ALREADY!

[babylonsister]

3. Well, I didn't know the House could overrule SC decisions. My bad. nt

[bbgrunt]

5. sorry--it is an interesting story and I think--without

reading the whole thing--that they rewrote the legislation to remove time limits. They didn't actually overrule the SC....but it is very frustrating to think that they are spending their time on legislation that will just be vetoed.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. The repuke Senators will stop it from passing in the Senate.

If they don't, it's because they know the psycho will veto it. He'll take the blame and they'll get the credit for voting for it, even if they voted for it ONLY because they knew it would be vetoed.:(