Yeah, Jay, those were Democrats, not Republicans, who fought against civil rights legislation in the 1960s.

Republicans object to this [Paycheck Fairness Act] strenuously using the same arguments that conservatives used when they objected to every bit of progress made on civil rights for women and minorities for history, over the past many decades, and they were wrong then, and they are wrong now.

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