[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 71 (Thursday, April 27, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2072]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CONTINUING FIGHT FOR ERA

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, for as long as I have been here in the 
United States Congress, which is more than two decades, we have been 
fighting to add to the Constitution a perfectly sensible amendment, one 
that does not offend the American people.
  It simply says that the equal rights amendment declares that women 
are equal in this Nation from the early suffragette days to the days of 
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Susan B. Anthony. That is only a 
fair statement, that the rights of women should be considered part of 
the Constitution.
  Unfortunately, today, the United States Senate voted it down when 51 
of our Senators, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, whom I met outside 
the Senate Chambers, wanted to make sure that the Constitution stood on 
its four points of equality, justice, opportunity, and democracy.
  We will continue to fight until the equal rights amendment is passed 
fairly in this Nation and for the world to see, as they have admired us 
for our principles of freedom, that we believe in freedom for all the 
people of this Nation, men and women and families. That is extremely 
important. It is sad that it was voted down today by our friends on the 
other side of the aisle.

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