Just two weeks ago, Republican opposition blocked the Fairness Paycheck Act guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work.
The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guarantees a "free appropriate public education" for children with disabilities.
1994 Trade Union reform and Employment Rights Act guarantees every working woman the right to maternity leave for the first time.
Not long after, President Gerald R. Ford signed what is now the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, guaranteeing access to special education and other services.
On the same date a year later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, guaranteeing the rights of employees to organize and to bargain collectively with their employers.
Title I of the act guarantees equal voting rights by removing registration requirements and procedures biased against minorities and the underprivileged.
He signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote, and appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first African American supreme court justice.
A 1975 federal law, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, guarantees a "free and appropriate public education" for all disabled students.
The act guarantees Quebec the right to a Roman Catholic school system under Roman Catholic control, exclusive jurisdiction over property and civil rights, and the French system of civil law.
The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act guarantees only twelve weeks of (unpaid) maternity leave and, in marked contrast to established practice in other industrial nations, neither the government nor the typical employer offers much more.
The other major legislation we need government to back now to deal with racial inequality, particularly to help the minority but very large faith communities, is an Equality Act, guaranteeing equality in law across the board.
