The more important question for me is whether Romney will oppose another bill, the misleadingly-named Paycheck Fairness Act, which is much worse than the Ledbetter Act (President Obama unfortunately supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, which economists like Diana Furchtgott-Roth have criticized as costly, unfair, and deceptive), but which has not yet become law. Even some moderate Democrats and Republicans who voted for the Ledbetter Act (like Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho)) opposed the Paycheck Fairness Act, viewing it as a substantially worse bill.

To date, Romney has not endorsed the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would undermine merit-based pay practices. I hope he does not, since the Paycheck Fairness Act is far from guaranteed to pass (it has only passed the House in the past, when the House was in Democratic hands — not under its current GOP majority).

I explain why the Paycheck Fairness Act is a bad idea here:

http://www.examiner.com/scotus-in-washington-dc/paycheck-fairness-act-would-mandate-equal-pay-for-unequal-work-triggering-flood-of-lawsuits

Before the Lilly Ledbetter Act was passed, there were already federal laws on the books prohibiting sex discrimination in pay. The only thing the Ledbetter Act does is make it easier for employees to bring bogus fair-pay claims accusing long-gone……