# Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as his first enrolled statute Date: 2009 ## The fact On 29 January 2009 President [Barack Obama](/people/barack-obama) signed S. 181, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, as Public Law 111-2, resetting the EEOC charge clock for pay discrimination. ## Context The Supreme Court’s Ledbetter v. Goodyear sat as parent. Neighbouring ARRA is a different date. He did not sit as every employer payroll clerk. Congress wrote and passed the bill. ARRA 17 February 2009 is a neighbouring statute. Fair Sentencing 2010 is a later rights file. A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025. ## Evidence and sources White House (archives) carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) and [income inequality](/drivers/income-inequality): a completed charge-clock statute, remaining later wage-gap series named. ## What is established and what is not Established: 29 January 2009 signature of Public Law 111-2, independently reported. Not established: a unique later gender-wage coefficient from that Thursday, or that every employer uniquely equalised pay that week. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Congress enacted. EEOC and employers implement.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as his first enrolled statute, not a later speech about Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as his first enrolled statute. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as his first enrolled statute on 2009-01-29 is not a licence to treat every later White House (archives) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as his first enrolled statute into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed. Congress enacted. EEOC and employers implement. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights - Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-obama-ledbetter-idUSTRE50S6B620090129 - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-restoration-act-bill-signin ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-lilly-2009