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Great news! The Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338 sponsored by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.) was passed by the Education and Labor Committee on July 24 without any harmful or weakening amendments. The House leadership intends to bring this bill to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as soon as THIS WEDNESDAY.

On May 15, 2008 the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass the Alice Paul Women's Suffrage Congressional Gold Medal Act, H.R. 406. This bill, sponsored by Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.), commemorates Alice Paul's role in the women's suffrage movement and salutes her leadership in advancing equal rights for women. Take action now!

It has been a year since the House passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act and we must demand that the Senate quit stalling and support a bill to restore our rights. Although opponents of women's fair pay have implied that the House-passed bill has "gone too far," they couldn't be more wrong.

We did it! Women turned out in record numbers and we elected Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Obama and his running mate Joe Biden have been entrusted with bringing change to this country during a time of crisis and Bush-induced cynicism. After all the dancing in the streets: What next?

We need your vote today in a contest! We're happy to report that MileMeter, a per-mile auto insurance company which NOW's Insurance Project has been mentoring, is a finalist in Amazon Web Service's Start-Up Challenge.

You don't even need to open the latest edition of the New Yorker to see racism in the media and the presidential race. All you need to do is look at the cover!

They're at it again! The Bush administration is moving to further limit equal economic opportunity for women through a critical change in the Small Business Administration (SBA) regulations relating to the Women's Procurement Program. Comments to the SBA are due Monday, February 25. Take Action NOW!

This summer, women's rights advocates discovered an impending administration attack on birth control. After hearing a multitude of protests, Secretary Mike Leavitt of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services blogs that it wasn't his intent. Let's make sure it isn't.

Longtime NOW members Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon have been leading feminists and lesbian activists since they founded the first lesbian organization in the 1950s. Together they wrote Lesbian/Woman, and Del wrote the groundbreaking book Battered Wives, among many accomplishments.

We all owe a great deal to these pioneers, and were delighted to see San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom honor them with the very first legal marriage of a same-sex couple in California.

Join us in sending congratulations and thanks to Del and Phyllis -- congratulations on their long-awaited legal marriage, after 55 years as partners, and thanks for many years of dedicated feminist activism and leadership.

The Bush Administration has now published the rewritten rules on "conscience" and those of us in good conscience must register our outrage.

Hillary Clinton's campaign inspired millions of women across the country, and the increased female voter turnout has helped many women running for Congress or local office in those primaries.

Join us in sending a salute to Hillary Clinton, who said on June 3: "I made you -- and everyone who supported me -- a promise: to stand up for our shared values and to never back down. I'm going to keep that promise today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life."

We begged him not to and he did it anyway - President Bush, in only the 6th veto of his reign, turned his back on millions of low-income children in desperate need of health care.

Urge Congress to override the veto.

A handful of big media conglomerates want to own even more TV stations, newspapers and radio stations than they already do. If we let this happen, it will spell disaster for the representation of women and people of color in the media.

Gender-based violence contributes to the poverty, inequality and instability that threaten peace and democracy around the world. Please urge your senators to support the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA).

The Medicaid program is the largest single source of funding for reproductive health care services for women, and the only source of health care for millions of low-income people. Yet, George W. Bush and his Republican friends are attempting to undermine the program's effectiveness and cut federal matching funds through a new set of administrative regulations. We need your help to stop them. Take Action!

Right now 1.8 million federal workers need your support as they balance their work and family obligations. Ask your senator to sponsor the bill that will provide a modest amount of paid parental leave for these government workers and their families

An open letter to the House of Representatives, encouraging them to support the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (H.R.1328). "Over a million Native women and children face great disparities in their quest to lead healthy lives. Their often rural and low income circumstances make it more necessary than ever for them to have an improved Indian health care services and delivery."

Bush is threatening to veto a children's health care bill because he has his own proposal for funding, one that would cut off around 800,000 children from receiving the health care they so desperately need.

The Bush Administration has now published the rewritten rules on "conscience" and those of us in good conscience must register our outrage.

The Bush Administration has now published the rewritten rules on "conscience" and those of us in good conscience must register our outrage.