10. Ended the Equal Pay Initiative, opposes stronger enforcement of equal
pay laws -- and even removed fact sheets about equal pay from federal government
websites!
9. Put families at risk by cutting funding for emergency shelters, crisis
hotlines, and other needed services to protect women from violence; and would
end federal efforts to improve databases of stalkers.
8. Left behind nearly a half million children from child care programs in
the next five years, and cut back on after-school programs that enable working
parents to know their children are safe after school.
7. Opposes increasing the minimum wage, which would benefit nearly 7 million
working women; and refuses to extend the child tax credit to 12 million children
in lower income working families.
6. Refused to make prescription drugs affordable for American women -- who
represent more than 60% of Medicare recipients -- but secured a big gift to
the drug companies!
5. Offered huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans while losing access to
health insurance and health care costs continue to escalate.
4. Broken promise to fully fund No Child Left Behind, leaving state and local
governments struggling to pay the bills, our teachers overburdened and our
children shortchanged.
3. Rolled back environmental regulations that protect clean air and water,
endangering our families' health; and slowed down the clean up of toxic wastes
sites while insisting that taxpayers pay the burden!
2. Nominated federal judges who are hostile to women's rights -- like ruling
a breast cancer patient had no right of privacy when her doctor allowed a
drug company salesman to sit in on her examination!
1. Undermined women's right to choose -- selecting vehemently anti-choice
judicial nominees; trying to cut funding for family planning; even overruling
the government's own scientific panels to refuse over the counter sale of
emergency contraception!