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Just in time for election season, Senate Republicans blocked legislation aimed at closing the gender pay gap. For the third time since 2012, Republicans refused to allow debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, and reminded women that the GOP doesn't believe in equal pay for equal work
 
Even in 2014, women still earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts, and there are substantial legal hurdles that prevent women from suing employers for pay discrimination. Senate Democrats introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act years ago, to provide training for salary negotiations, and prevent employers from retaliating against workers who fight for equal pay.
 
Republicans in the upper chamber claim that the legislation would mean more lawsuits, and say that Democrats should be focused on other matters. Senator John McCain said, "Here we have an international crisis, with the defense authorization bill out there, and we refuse to take [that] up." However, many Americans would argue that the Arizona Senator has his priorities backwards.
 
Just like unemployment, student debt relief, and immigration reform, Republicans continue to block the Paycheck Fairness Act but have no problem voting to fund another war. Americans want Congress to get to work on jobs and infrastructure and equal pay for equal work, but those on the Right refuse to pass anything that could be viewed as a win for the President.
 
Come this November, it's time to remind Congress that they work for us. Let's say enough with the obstruction, and elect new lawmakers who are actually listening to We The People.
 
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Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
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Article: "Media Turn Blind Eye to Money in Politics" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Should the United States Arm Syrian Rebels? " by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Article: "Sanders Votes No on War Funds" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Video: Sanders on Meet the Press, Sep 14, 2014.
Article: "Senate blocks pay equity bill" by Burgess Everett.
Article: "The Week in Review" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Hour Two: Who's winning the war on poverty?
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Article: "The War on Poverty After 50 Years" by Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield.
Article: "The War on Poverty Has Been a Colossal Flop" by Robert Rector.
Quote: "I want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be taxpayers instead of tax eaters" - "We shall Overcome" speech by Lyndon B. Johnson, March 15, 1965.
 
Article: "Colombia seeks dividend from wealthiest 1%" by Andres Schipani.
Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
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Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.
Article: "Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks" by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore.
 
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Article: "Scotland Chooses To Stay In UK" by Celina Gore.
Article: "Alex Salmond resigns as first minister after Scotland rejects independence" by Severin Carrell, Patrick Wintour, Rowena Mason.
Article: "Telegraph reporters barred from Alex Salmond's resignation press conference" by Christopher Hope, and Ben Riley-Smith.
Article: "White House Launches "It's On Us" Campaign" by Leah Schwarting.
Article: "Obama faces busy week at United Nations" by David Jackson.
Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.
Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/19/14" by Victoria Jones.
Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/18/14" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Scotland votes for a united U.K.
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Article: "Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Caliphate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Women and the vote" anniversary of New Zealand becoming the first self-governing country in the world to give all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections, 19 September 1893).
Article: "Harley-Davidson India" by Wikipedia.
Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight Eisenhower. "Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956", August 20, 1956.
Event: September 21 NYC (and around the world)"Climate March".
Video: Carbon.
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