Author Archives: Roberta Madden

Tomorrow, Virginia is expected to pass full floor votes on ERA bills in both chambers of the House and Senate – HJ1 and SJ1, respectively. The bills are then anticipated to favorably crossover chambers, thus successfully achieving the ratification of … Continue reading →

This bipartisan Senate measure will eliminate the deadline for ratification. A similar House resolution already has 224 cosponsors–more than enough to pass. Jan 9, 2020 — New Cosponsors S.J.Res. 6: A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of … Continue reading →

by Roberta Madden, published in the Asheville Citizen-Times, December 29, 2019 For the past five years, North Carolina women have urged the General Assembly to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The US Constitution requires three-fourths of the states must ratify … Continue reading →

 As Virginia nears ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, new cosponsors added to Senate resolution that would remove the deadline for ratificationWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) announced Friday the addition of 16 cosponsors for the bipartisan resolution to remove the … Continue reading →

11/18/2019 Passage of legislation in Virginia would mean 38 states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, meeting the Constitutional requirement Richmond, VA – Today, Senator Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) introduces legislation for the Commonwealth of Virginia to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment … Continue reading →

Chairman Nadler Announces Next Step in Effort to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment Washington, November 8, 2019 Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that the House Judiciary Committee would be marking up H.J.Res. 79 to … Continue reading →

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the New York Times Democrats aim to repeal an expired deadline on the measure to ensure equality of the sexes, clearing the way for Virginia — where they just won legislative control — to be the … Continue reading →

Jackie Speier Sponsor. Representative for California’s 14th congressional district. Democrat. H.J.Res. 38: Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment. New Cosponsor: Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY10] The resolution now has 215 cosponsors (213 Democrats, 2 Republicans).

(CNN)The coming Democratic takeover of the Virginia legislature has cleared the path for the state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would ban discrimination on the basis of sex and guarantee equality for women under the Constitution.Earlier this year, the state Senate … Continue reading →