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The Pay Gap, Mark Warner edition

My email box explodes with notes bearing urgent headlines about the Senate’s upcoming vote on the “Paycheck Fairness Act.”

Most of it is noise. But one did make itself heard above the din, and it relates [1] to our own Mark Warner:

Many of the senators with the largest pay disparity between men and women are facing reelection battles in 2014.

Among those with the greatest disparity is Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.), who paid his female staffers only 72 cents on the dollar compared to male staffers. The average female salary was $20,861 below the average male salary.

The (Democratic) war on women continues…