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Removing Deadline for Ratification of Equal Rights Amendment

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 13, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

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Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, every single constitution in the whole world written since 1959, including Afghanistan, for example, has the equivalent of the equal rights amendment, but the United States of America does not.

Though my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and President Trump's Department of Justice may tell you otherwise, we need the equal rights amendment, and we need it now.

The requisite number of States have now voted to ratify the equal rights amendment. Last year my home State of Illinois was the 37th State to ratify, and this year Virginia brought us to that number of 38.

Today I will proudly vote ``yes'' to show my grandchildren--my granddaughters and my grandsons--that women are not only strong, powerful, and resilient, but also equal citizens under the law.

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand with us.

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