The Senate will vote Thursday on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would expand and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and make it illegal for employers to punish women for bringing up pay disparity issues.\r\n\r\nDana Perino, a Fox News contributor and former press secretary for President George W. Bush, called the equal pay issue \"a distraction\" from the country\'s real financial problems last week.\r\n\r\n\"Well, it\'s just yet another distraction of dealing with the major financial issues that the country should be dealing with,\" Perino said. \"This is not a job creator.\" (credit:AP)
Just My Imagination (The Temptations)(02 of03)
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose home state\'s legislature recently defunded Planned Parenthood and voted to pass a bill that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage, delivered a floor speech in which he insisted that the war on women is something imaginary for Democrats to \"sputter about.\"\r\n\r\n\"My friends, this supposed \'War on Women\' or the use of similarly outlandish rhetoric by partisan operatives has two purposes, and both are purely political in their purpose and effect: The first is to distract citizens from real issues that really matter and the second is to give talking heads something to sputter about when they appear on cable television,\" he said. (credit:AP)
Butterfly Fly Away (Miley & Billy Ray Cyrus)(03 of03)
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tried to trivialize concerns about the legislative \"war on women\" by comparing it to a \"war on caterpillars.\" \r\n\r\n\"If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we\'d have problems with caterpillars,\" Priebus said in an April interview on Bloomberg Television. \"It\'s a fiction.\" (credit:AP)