Removing the Deadline for the Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

Floor Speech

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I want to thank the chairman for his time, and I want to thank Mrs. Maloney and Ms. Speier for their long work on this, and the many women before them who have worked hard on this effort.

Congress created the limitation on years on the passage of the ERA, and Congress can change it, and Congress should change it.

I am the product of the work of a woman, my mother, and her mother produced her. We should not forget women and their commitment and invaluable contributions at our birth.

Every woman should have the same rights as a man. They don't get paid the same, they are discriminated in the workplace, they are harassed, they are abused. They should have equal rights. That has not occurred in America, and it won't happen until we pass this bill.

I favor the passage and I appreciate the spirit in which it is offered.

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Mr. COHEN. Unlike Alexander Haig, I am only here temporarily.

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), who is from the East Side and who, as chairperson, brought us the great hearing last year on the ERA.

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler), who is the chairman of the committee, that he may control that time.

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