The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve HJRes 79 to remove the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The original deadline expired on June 30, 1982.
The resolution was introduced in November, and the House Judiciary Committee approved it in January. The day before the Committee’s approval, Virginia became the thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. The resolution will now go to the Senate, where its future is uncertain. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he will not support it.
