They Voted For You: Pay Discrimination

U.S. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, and Nick Rahall, D-3rd, voted for legislation "to reverse the Supreme Court's decision limiting the time that workers have to sue their employers for pay discrimination," The Associated Press reports.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-2nd, voted against the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act," which prevailed 225-199.

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

(The article also notes that "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 claimed earlier decisions by her supervisors kept her from making more. The court said she had waited too long to sue.")