Schumer: Senate To Vote On Equal Rights Amendment

Via press release from Sen. Chuck Schumer:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today stood at NYC’s Roosevelt House alongside trailblazing women, including Gloria Steinem, the Honorable Carolyn Maloney, Hunter College Pres Jennifer Raab, students and other national and local leaders, and announced that he will set up a historic vote in the Senate this week on S.J. Res 2, a bipartisan, bicameral joint resolution led by Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would remove the arbitrary deadline preventing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from becoming ratified as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would guarantee equal rights under the law regardless of sex. The amendment was first introduced in Congress 100 years ago in 1923, but it was not until 1972 that it was passed by both houses of Congress and sent to the states for ratification. Since then, the amendment has been ratified by 38 states, which is the number needed to become part of the Constitution.

The resolution by Sens. Cardin and Murkowski removes the arbitrary deadline for ERA ratification that was placed by Congress in the 1970s and recognizes the amendment as a valid part of the Constitution.

The Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week — 100 years after it was first introduced in Congress. The proposed legislation would remove arbitrary seven-year deadline on the ratification process and allow the Constitution to be amended. https://t.co/oUXM1oAzJ3

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