Back in March of last year, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, broke ranks when they introduced a bill that would remove the deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed Constitutional amendment that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. One year later, the bill has since then only been referred to the committee level as Republicans have aggressively pushed back against the amendment, working to ensure that the ERA will never be certified – on a technicality.
Recently, Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, penned a missive to U.S. Archivist David Ferriero, demanding that he commit to shutting the amendment down over a lack of state support.
