Obama Signs Two Executive Orders Regarding Equal Pay (16 images)

President Barack Obama signs an executive order regarding equal pay for women at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 8, 2014. Obama signed two executive orders a day before the U.S. Senate debates the Paycheck Fairness Act. UPI/Pat Benic

President Barack Obama signs two executive orders regarding equal pay for women at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 8, 2014. Equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter is at left. Obama signed the executive orders a day before the U.S. Senate debates the Paycheck Fairness Act. UPI/Pat Benic

President Barack Obama signs two executive orders regarding equal pay for women at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 8, 2014. Equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter is at left. Obama signed the executive orders a day before the U.S. Senate debates the Paycheck Fairness Act. UPI/Pat Benic

Equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter walks past a monitor that says "Opportunity For All" with President Barack Obama before Obama signed two executive orders regarding equal pay for women at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 8, 2014. Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, and the U.S. Senate will debate the Paycheck Fairness Act tomorrow. UPI/Pat Benic