Did you know that the Equal Rights Amendment is still around?

Status of the Equal Rights Amendment
May 28, 2008 at 11:36 pm · Filed under House legislation, Senate legislation

You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate.

Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that:

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

So, how is the Equal Rights Amendment coming along in Congress? In both the House and in the Senate, the amendment is stuck in the judiciary committees. The House version has been co-sponsored by John Conyers, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. In the Senate, the chair of the Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, has not co-sponsored the proposed amendment, but I have a difficult time believing that he would actually not vote for the ERA and work in its favor.

What can you do to get the Equal Rights Amendment finally passed by both houses of Congress? Call Congress and put the pressure on. The following are the co-sponsors of the proposed amendment in the House and Senate. If you don’t see the names of your two senators and one representative in the House, make a telephone call to urge speedy passage.

Senate:

Joseph Biden
Barbara Boxer
Sherrod Brown
Maria Cantwell
Benjamin Cardin
Hillary Clinton
Christopher Dodd
Richard Durbin
Russell Feingold
Dianne Feinstein
Tom Harkin
John Kerry
Amy Klobuchar
Frank Lautenberg
Carl Levin
Joseph Lieberman
Robert Menendez
Barbara Mikulski
Patty Murray
Barack Obama
Bernard Sanders
Charles Schumer
Debbie Stabenow
Sheldon Whitehouse

House of Representatives

Neil Abercrombie
Gary Ackerman
Tom Allen
Robert Andrews
Michael Arcuri
Joe Baca
Brian Baird
Tammy Baldwin
Melissa Bean
Xavier Becerra
Shelley Berkley
Howard Berman
Marion Berry
Judy Biggert
Sanford Bishop
Tim Bishop
Earl Blumenauer
Madeleine Bordallo
Leonard Boswell
Rick Boucher
Allen Boyd Robert Brady
Bruce Braley
Corrine Brown
G.K. Butterfield
Lois Capps
Michael Capuano
Dennis Cardoza
Russ Carnahan
Julia Carson
Michael Castle
Kathy Castor
Ben Chandler
Donna Christensen
Yvette Clarke
William Lacy Clay
Emanuel Cleaver
James Clyburn
Steve Cohen
John Conyers
Jim Cooper
Jim Costa
Jerry Costello
Joseph Crowley
Henry Cuellar
Elijah Cummings
Artur Davis
Danny Davis
Susan Davis
Peter DeFazio
Diana DeGette William Delahunt
Rosa DeLauro
Norman Dicks
John Dingell
Lloyd Doggett
Michael Doyle
Chet Edwards
Keith Ellison
Rahm Emanuel
Eliot Engel
Anna Eshoo
Sam Farr
Chaka Fattah
Bob Filner
Barney Frank
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Charles Gonzalez
Al Green
Gene Green
Raul Grijalva
Luis Gutierrez
John Hall
Phil Hare
Jane Harman
Alcee Hastings
Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin
Brian Higgins
Maurice Hinchey
Ruben Hinojosa
Mazie Hirono Paul Hodes
Rush Holt
Michael Honda
Darlene Hooley
Steny Hoyer
Jay Inslee
Steve Israel
Jesse Jackson
Shiela Jackson-Lee
William Jefferson
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Henry Johnson
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Steve Kagen
Marcy Kaptur
Patrick Kennedy
Dale Kildee
Carolyn Kilpatrick
Ron Kind
Mark Kirk
Ron Klein
Dennis Kucinich
James Langevin
Tom Lantos
Rick Larsen
John Larson
Barbara Lee
Sander Levin
John Lewis
Rick Larsen
Frank LoBiondo David Loebsack
Zoe Lofgren
Stephen Lynch
Nita Lowey
Ed Markey
Carolyn McCarthy
Betty McCollum
Jim McDermott
James McGovern
Jerry McNerney
Michael McNulty
Martin Meehan
Kendrick Meek
Gregory Meeks
Charles Melancon
Michael Michaud
Juanita Millender-McDonald
Brad Miller
George Miller
Gwen Moore
Dennis Moore
James Moran
Jerrold Nadler
Grace Napolitano
Richard Neal
Eleanor Holmes Norton
John Olver
Solomon Ortiz
Frank Pallone
Bill Pascrell Ed Pastor
Donald Payne
Ed Perlmutter
Collin Peterson
Earl Pomeroy
David Price
Deborah Pryce
Nick Rahall
Jim Ramstad
Charles Rangel
Silvestre Reyes
Ciro Rodriguez
Steven Rothman
Lucille Roybal-Allard
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
Bobby Rush
Linda Sanchez
Loretta Sanchez
John Sarbanes
Adam Schiff
Allyson Schwartz
David Scott
Jose Serrano
Christopher Shays
Carol Shea-Porter
Brad Sherman
Albio Sires
Louise Slaughter
Adam Smith Vic Snyder
Hilda Solis
John Spratt
Peter Stark
Betty Sutton
Ellen Tauscher
Gene Taylor
Bennie Thompson
Mike Thompson
John Tierney
Edolphus Towns
Niki Tsongas
Mark Udall
Tom Udall
Chris Van Hollen
Nydia Velazquez
Timothy Walz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Maxine Waters
Diane Watson
Melvin Watt
Henry Waxman
Anthony Weiner
Peter Welch
Robert Wexler
Charles Wilson
Lynn Woolsey
David Wu
Albert Wynn
John Yarmuth

http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2008/05/28/status-of-the-equal-rights-amendment/

14th amendment already says that no one may be denied equal protection of the law.