Action Alert, July 19, 1982

After the June 30, 1982 deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment passed without the necessary 3 additional state ratifications, Congress had to start over. The ERA was reintroduced in the U.S. Congress on July 14, 1982. 51 Senators and 204 Representatives signed on as cosponsors, but the reintroduction failed to gain traction.