Jan 22, 2021 Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) today wrote to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris requesting that they act to immediately rescind a Trump Administration legal memo preventing the completion of the process to make the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Congresswoman Maloney has sponsored the House bill to ratify the ERA in every Congress since 1997.
President Biden made the ratification of the ERA a key pillar in the Biden Agenda for Women, and Vice President Harris said early on in her campaign that the ERA would be her first order of business as a key tool to pursuing economic justice.
In her letter, the Congresswoman writes, “I have sponsored an Equal Rights Amendment resolution in the House during every Congressional session since the 105th in 1997, working to build momentum and support for this critical constitutional change. As you know, last January, Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the amendment. Now that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified by a majority of states, I urge you to prioritize your campaign promise and direct the National Archivist to immediately perform his ministerial role as required by law to publish the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution of the United States.”
Full text of the letter below and a PDF can be found here.
