Federal Pay Equity Act of 1984. hearings before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 4599, a bill to promote pay equity and eliminate certain wage-setting practices within the federal civil service system which discriminate on the basis of sex, race, or ethnicity and result in discriminatory wage differentials : H.R. 5092, a bill to require periodic, detailed reports to the President and the Congress by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Secretary of Labor, and the Attorney General describing actions taken to enforce federal laws prohibiting discrimination in compensation on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, or national origin and to reaffirm the provisions in federal law which declare that equal pay should be provided for work of equal value. Part 2, May 30, July 17, October 18, 1984 :