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Today, Democrats advanced H.R. 1065, the Paycheck Fairness Act, which does not include a long-standing provision from the Civil Rights Act which protects religious organizations from being forced to make employment decisions that conflict with their faith.

"House Republicans will not stand for discrimination of any kind, and as a mother and a grandmother, workplace protections for pregnant women are particularly important to me.
 
“My Republican colleagues and I have long been committed to policies and laws that empower all Americans to achieve success, and this includes current protections in federal law for pregnant workers.
 
“While meaningful and necessary bipartisan improvements were made to H.R. 1065, it falls short in protecting one of the nation’s most treasured rights — freedom of religion.
 
“Democrats’ refusal to include a commonsense current-law provision that protects religious organizations from being forced to make employment decisions that conflict with their faith is shortsighted and disappointing.
 
“Congress should not be in the business of taking away rights from the American people.”

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