Sen. Kay Hagan has cosponsored her first bill.
The Greensboro Democrat is one of 53 cosponsors of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill that would amend the rules under which a person is compensated for discrimination.
The bill arose from the case of Lilly Ledbetter, who discovered that Goodyear Tire Co. had been paying her less than her male colleagues for years. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that Ledbetter did not file her case in time.
The case was a cause celebre during the presidential campaign, with both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supporting the bill and John McCain opposing it.
Ledbetter joined Hagan at a campaign stop in Charlotte in October to criticize then-Sen. Elizabeth Dole for voting against a prior version of the bill.
All but two of the 17 women in the U.S. Senate are also cosponsors.
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