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Engine of growth is with small and medium-sized businesses. and in my role in working with the different regulators, i would make sure that we did what we could to have proper regulation but eliminate overlap as well as make sure that the banks are lending to small and medium-sized businesses and we dont end up with a world where we only have four big banks in this country. >> thank you. you actual lily led right into next question. in a very closely related matter, as you know, as the secretary...

Naacp legal defense fund. two of them, albert and evelyn turner were very close lieutenants of martin luther king and they were prosecuted by senator sessions and when he was u.s. attorney. they were acquitted. but this has not been forgotten and, in fact, that case and other statements made by the senator was one of the reasons why in 1986 the senate judiciary committee would not move him forward when he sought to be a federal district judge. so, the question then is what has happened since the...

View of how it works out in real life, can you tell if there are policies that the government can pursue to change things? within occupation groups and income levels, is there something the government can do? >> no question. the research that scientists have done, title 7 has made a difference. the federal contract compliance we have already, makes reports and affirmative action plans. all the research shows that it has made a difference. and two of the policies from the president would make a d...

Policies that the government can pursue to change things? within occupation groups and income levels, is there something the government can do? >> no question. the research that scientists have done, title 7 has made a difference. the federal contract compliance we have already, makes reports and affirmative action plans. all the research shows that it has made a difference. and two of the policies from the president would make a difference. pay transparency. lily led better found out toward the...

Address the wage gap between men and women. lily led better worked as a supervisor at a goodyear plant in alabama. one of the few women who had that job and she didnt know at the time she worked there that the men at the mant made more than she did. she filed a gender discrimination lawsuit and won more than $3 million in back pay. but the u.s. supreme court overturned her victory saying she didnt file her lawsuit soon you enough, she didnt know she made less than the guys didnt matter. with his...

There are are certainly decisions made by women, for example, to have a child out of wedlock will probably be a pretty good indicator of ending up in poverty. but, at the same time, there are women who are doing everything the way they are supposed to do them and they are still discriminated against, such as lily led better which was the case that went to the supreme court. this is a woman who worked hard her whole life and she found out the day she left her job, retired that she had been making...

There are are certainly decisions made by women, for example, to have a child out of wedlock will probably be a pretty good indicator of ending up in poverty. but, at the same time, there are women who are doing everything the way they are supposed to do them and they are still discriminated against, such as lily led better which was the case that went to the supreme court. this is a woman who worked hard her whole life and she found out the day she left her job, retired that she had been making...

Women work today. whether theyre supporting their family on their own, supporting themselves, sometimes theyre supporting a sick mom, a sister, the fact is married or not, this impacts the family. it is so wrong. and when we pass the lily led better law, which, again, senator mikulski, our dean, pushed forward, that was the first bill that president obama signed. and what it said was you cannot set an artificial timeline from when a woman could sue when she finds out theres been discrimination b...

Honorable. >> we waited 90 minutes to hear him give us solutions to change the course over the last four years and waiting for some type of a change in policy and manage different he was going to do and i didnt get it. >> i will show you one can click . you had dials in the hand. hand me one of those. they are reacting on a second by second basis to every word and this is where obama performed the best on womens rights and womens issues. >> the first bill i signed was lily led better bill. named...

Freedom. jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families. working with president obama, democrats passed the lily led better fair pay act to strengthen rights of women in the workplace. we repealed dont ask, dont tell so our troops can serve the country they love, regardless of whom they love. we made college more affordable. house democrats passed the dream act but senate republicans blocked it. [boos] with president obama, democrats enacted the toughest consumer safeguards in history, ...