Editing Equal Rights Amendment (section)

=== Reintroduction of the amendment in Congress ===
The amendment has been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982. Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] (D-Massachusetts) championed it in the Senate from the [[99th United States Congress|99th Congress]] through the [[110th United States Congress|110th Congress]]. Senator [[Robert Menendez]] (D-New Jersey) introduced the amendment at the end of the [[111th United States Congress|111th Congress]] and supported it in the [[112th United States Congress|112th Congress]]. In the House of Representatives, [[Carolyn Maloney]] (D-New York) has sponsored it since the [[105th United States Congress|105th Congress]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://maloney.house.gov/sites/maloney.house.gov/files/documents/women/era/AUGUST%2012%20Facts%20About%20the%20ERA%20in%20the%20111th%20Congress.pdf |title=The Equal Rights Amendment: 111th Congress |date=July 13, 2009 |website=maloney.house.gov |access-date=April 22, 2015 |archive-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207101331/http://maloney.house.gov/sites/maloney.house.gov/files/documents/women/era/AUGUST%2012%20Facts%20About%20the%20ERA%20in%20the%20111th%20Congress.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> most recently in August 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.j.res.56: |title=Bill Summary & Status 113th Congress (2013–2014) H.J. Res. 56 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=April 22, 2015 |archive-date=December 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141212132025/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.j.res.56: |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1983, the ERA passed through House committees with the same text as in 1972; however, it failed by six votes to achieve the necessary two-thirds vote on the House floor. That was the last time that the ERA received a floor vote in either house of Congress.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RD3wqORd9jMC&pg=PA308 |title=Women and Politics: An International Perspective |last=Randall |first=Vicky |date=1987 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-70392-3 |page=308}}</ref>

At the start of the 112th Congress on January 6, 2011, Senator Menendez, along with representatives Maloney, [[Jerrold Nadler]] (D-New York) and [[Gwen Moore]] (D-Wisconsin), held a press conference advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment's adoption.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=As Constitution is read aloud, Maloney, Menendez, Nadler, Moore cite need for Equal Rights Amendment |date=January 6, 2011 |url=http://maloney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/constitution-read-aloud-maloney-menendez-nadler-moore-cite-need-equal-rights-amendment |access-date=April 22, 2015 |website=maloney.house.gov |archive-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207101540/http://maloney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/constitution-read-aloud-maloney-menendez-nadler-moore-cite-need-equal-rights-amendment |url-status=dead}}</ref> On March 5, 2013, the ERA was reintroduced by Senator Menendez as S.J. Res. 10.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/10|publisher=U.S. Congress |title=S.J.Res.10 – A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women, 113th Congress (2013–2014)|date=March 5, 2013}}</ref>

The "New ERA" introduced in 2013, sponsored by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, adds an additional sentence to the original text: "Women shall have equal rights in the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Equal Means Equal |last=Neuwirth |first=Jessica |publisher=The New Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-62097-039-3 |location=New York |page=102}}</ref>

In 2023, the [[Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment]] was founded by House Democrats.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coalition of multiracial congresswomen launch ERA caucus to ratify 28th Amendment |publisher=UPI |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/03/28/congressional-caucus-equal-rights-amendment/2191680038012/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |language=en}}</ref>