Lauding the “extraordinary” U.S. women’s national soccer team for its “excellence” and “heart,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) extended an invitation on Monday to the World Cup champions to visit the U.S. Senate — saying “it would be my honor to host America’s winning team.”

His invitation followed a similar gesture by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who encouraged the women’s team to visit the U.S. Capitol “to celebrate your inspiring victory.”

Speaking from the Senate floor, Schumer also urged his GOP counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and his other colleagues to pass equal pay legislation in honor of the victorious team.

“They make us grapple with the deep unfairness in how female athletes are treated, and paid, compared to their male counterparts,” Schumer said in an apparent nod to the gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. women’s soccer team earlier this year. “Similarly. it’s an unfortunate reality that women in the workforce see their male colleagues paid significantly more for the same work.”