who is 55 years old, was laid off because of the recession and can't find a job, overqualified, overeducated, lots of different issues but they can't find work. we decided that it was important that they get unemployment benefits, benefit extension. about two million people agree with that for sure because they are the ones who lost those benefits. i don't believe that's posturing. we voted on that and it passed here. i think you have to have five cloture votes to get there. because of some very strong-willed republicans, we were able to do that, and i admire those five who joined with us. they mentioned yesterday they didn't want to do it by name. they said something we did yesterday. that something we did yesterday, madam president, said that if a woman works the same job that a man works, that woman should be paid the same as a man. now, is that posturing? i don't think so. my daughter doesn't think so. my granddaughters don't think so. they think it's pretty fair that -- because we have more than half the people who are going to college now are women, over half the people in medical scho