the lilly ledbetter act. if you can't stand up to protect kentucky past women against violence, you don't deserve to be a united states senator. [applause] as your next united states senator i will work to make sure that kentucky women it equal pay for equal work, $.79 on every dollar is not acceptable. and let's get the record straight, it is on mitch mcconnell's watch, not mine, that we have lost thousands of coal jobs. mitch mcconnell's watch that we have gone without the necessary funding to implement clean coal technology. it is on mitch mcconnell's watch, not minds that overburdened some epa regulations have been imposed upon the commonwealth of kentucky. this election will be about holding you accountable for all that has happened on your watch. the three words that scare senator mcconnell the most, besides seeing alison munter send grimes on the ballot, it is pro-coal kentucky and. i do not agree with the president, a war on coal. i think it is wrong for kentucky. we cannot afford to have six more yea

neil: it is against the law. >> thanks to lilly ledbetter. republicans did not vote for it they would not look me in the eye, but their votes under score. >> no, i don't agrow, with government gets involved, you force people to do things that is not good for their business in 1931, davis-bacon act designed to keep av one african-american nonunion black owned businesses from getting a construct contract they wanted to keep those for the whites black businesses were shut out, black businesses were able to compete, and save the government. neil: present day. >> they forced prevailing wage that is what do who you force a men all wage, you kill jobs, and eliminate someone's ability to create the jobs. neil: solution is to hear some of these, democrats say you have to lift minimum wage, then war on women will cease to be a war on women. >> lute sh absolutely not. >> we have not even have a minimum wage, at-this-point the market should determine what the wage is. you don't need government to come in, especially obama obamacare could nothing has been

we talk about comparative worth, lilly ledbetter.e the pet projects of the democrats but when it came down to one woman and one controversy, it was demean her, diminish her, blame her. they called her the clutch. they said she was obsessed with him. from that e-mail we found from hillary, she basically was saying the same thing. >> often the women in these sex scandals are the ones who get pushed to the side while the guy gets to rehabilitate himself. i think also there's a plea to the media here because she says she was made the scapegoat, not just by clinton aides, not just by ken star, but by the media. now she wants to have a drink with maureen dowd who makes so much fun of here. she wants kinder treatment. >> it's not about her, it's about him and the clinton machine which sought out initially when they didn't know which way she was going to turn, initially, you remember it as well as i did, they were trying to sideline her and dispose of her early on in the scandal. i remember it very well. >> the presidency was at stake, but i

barack obama's first equal legislation he signed with the lilly ledbetter faith -- fair pay act but inate we have a pay their bill that is stuck in legislative process. >> i think there is no question that women are not in as many high-paying jobs as men. that is part of the disparity. not as many ceos. appear that would the situation existed where a man and woman were doing the same work and not being paid equally. i happen to believe the government cannot legislate this. i believe it is political showboating. the other thing -- the only thing that will fix it is when people are engaged in an organization and understand it is in their interest to make sure women are leveraged and valued. >> it is graduation season. young women are armed with agrees and confidence. what should they know about what they are going to face? >> they should know they will face a tough work market. a market is cap. there are many opportunities for men and women if they are willing to be flexible, willing to take risk, chances, willing to move around and be resilient. huge opportunities in the international d

our supreme when court decided lilly ledbetter or decided citizens united, would you consider those decisionsjudicial activism? it did take a lot of people by surprise. >> i would not and the difference is my view of as aial activism legislator and as a judge. i have grown in my job as a judge to respect the role of judges to decide those cases based on the facts presented before them. when i was a legislator, i was not a judge. i was not making decisions in that capacity. it was determining what i was at the time that i made those comments. but certainly, you are correct. in 2004 werei made reflective of the sentiment you expressed. as a judge, you will be confronted with cases before you . the decisions that you make could be described i state legislators like you were as judicial activism. possibilitysee that as a federal judge? >> judges at all levels of court in my state are routinely criticized for making unpopular decisions. that making legislation legislators don't believe are appropriate. ride foren a judge that happened and i've been there when it happened. a judge the show's faithf

the lilly ledbetter act. up to protecttand kentucky past women against violence, you don't deserve to be you a -- as your next united states senator, all work to make sure that kentucky women get equal pay for equal work. $.79 on every dollar is not acceptable. [applause] and let's get the record straight. on mitch mcconnell's watch, not mine, that we have lost thousands of jobs. it is on his watch, not mine, that we've gone without the necessary funding to implement clean coal technology. it's on mitch mcconnell's watch, someine, that overburdened regulations have been imposed on the commonwealth of kentucky. this election will be about holding you, senator mcconnell, accountable for all that has happened on your watch. the three words that scare itator mcconnell the most, is pro-coal kentuckians. i don't agree with the president 's war on coal. i think it is wrong for kentucky. we cannot afford to have six more years of mitch mcconnell in washington dc either. as kentucky's next united states senator, i wil

for example, when our supreme court decided lilly ledbetter or decided citizens united, would you considerthose decisions judicial activism? it did take a lot of people by surprise. >> i would not and the difference is my view of judicial activism as a legislator and as a judge. i have grown in my job as a judge to respect the role of judges to decide those cases based on the facts presented before them. when i was a legislator, i was not a judge. i was not making decisions in that capacity. it was determining what i was at the time that i made those comments. but certainly, you are correct. the comments i made in 2004 were reflective of the sentiment you expressed. >> as a judge, you will be confronted with cases before you. the decisions that you make could be described i state legislators like you were as judicial activism. and you can see that possibility as a federal judge? >> judges at all levels of court in my state are routinely criticized for making unpopular decisions. maybe making legislation that legislators don't believe are appropriate. i have been a judge ride for that happe

guest: we hear the same thing president obama signed the lilly ledbetter act into law, people made theame claims. this extended the statute of limitations. this allowed people who found out they had been discriminated against a longer time. people said oh my fwosh once this passes everybody is going to start calling their lawyers. we're going to see this explosion in lawsuits. we haven't seen that at all. in recent years the number of wage discrimination lawsuits has stayed pretty flat. so this is important in that people who are being discriminated against need to have avenues to address that situation. we should not be empowering large corporations to discriminate against our employees. transparency is in everyone's best interest. if you're not doing anything illegal then why should it matter if your workers want to discuss their salaries with one another? there's no reason to expect that we would see an increase in lawsuits unless there are a lot of things happening behind closed doors. >> host: our guest is sara jane glynn. she's the women's economic policy associate director. alic