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Archived Floor Update :
The House is now taking the following vote on H.J.Res. 79:
- Passage of H.J.Res. 79 – Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment (Rep.
Archived Floor Update :
At approximately 10:40 a.m., the House will take the following vote on H.J.Res. 79:
- Passage of H.J.Res. 79 – Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment (Rep.
Archived Floor Update :
The House has begun one hour of debate on H.J.Res. 79 – Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
After debate on H.J.Res. 79, the House will take votes. These will be the last votes of the week.
After debate on H.J.Res. 79, the House will take votes. These will be the last votes of the week.
Press Release :
Today we are witnessing the takeover of the U.N. Human Rights Council by the discriminatory B.D.S. movement, whose mission, as expressed plainly by its founders, is to effect a ‘one-state solution’ that eliminates Israel as a Jewish state.
Issue Report :
The President released his budget this week, and it has been swiftly panned for making unrealistic economic growth assumptions, failing to address massive deficits and debt, and breaking promises the President made – like protecting Medicare – just last week in his State of the Union. Here’s a look at what the press and news columnists are saying about the budget:
Daily Leader :
| FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 | ||
Archived Floor Update :
The House has reconvened and is now taking the following votes on H.R.
Speech :
It’s never too late to do the right thing. About sixty days after…Congress passed the ERA, Maryland voted to ratify the ERA. I had been in the State Senate for five years at that point in the time, and I could not understand why women were not equal under our Constitution as it read, and how sad it was that, the consciousness of our Founders, which was extraordinarily high for their time – extraordinary – but they didn’t say ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident that all human kind are created equal.’ It is time to act. It is far past time to act. As I said in Maryland, 48 years ago, [we] overwhelmingly said: all of us are equal.
Archived Floor Update :
Today, the House meets at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. There will be up to five “One Minutes” per side.
Following “One Minutes,” the House will begin one hour of debate on H.J.Res. 79 – Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
After debate on H.J.Res. 79, the House will take votes. These will be the last votes of the week.
Following “One Minutes,” the House will begin one hour of debate on H.J.Res. 79 – Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
After debate on H.J.Res. 79, the House will take votes. These will be the last votes of the week.
Issue Report :
From the wage gap and pregnancy discrimination to sexual harassment and attacks on reproductive health care, women face gender discrimination in many ways. Persistent gender inequality and discrimination impacts women, their families, and our economy: