Collection:LPB

Genre: News, Public Affairs

Place Covered: Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2013-05-13

Duration: 00:02:24

Subjects: Louisiana. Legislature | Louisiana Legislative Session, 2009 | Politics | Government | Equal pay for equal work | Sex discrimination | Unemployment insurance | United States. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | Economic stimulus | Term limits (Public office) | State legislators

Contributors:

• Sanford, Shauna Host
• Labruzzo, John Speaker
• Piedrahita, Randy Speaker
• Washington, Cornell Speaker
• Ponti, Erich Speaker
• Hardy, Rickey Speaker

This episode of the series “Capitol Beat” from May 13, 2009, features: testimony on the Equal Pay for Women Act, a bill prohibiting employers from discriminating against women because of their gender; State Representative Rickey Hardy testifying on his resolution calling for the Legislature to bypass Governor Bobby Jindal’s rejection of the federal economic stimulus money to expand unemployment compensation benefits; and the defeat of a constitutional amendment allowing state legislators to serve only three terms in either the House or the Senate. Host: Shauna Sanford