H.J.Res. 80: Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. · Congress Swing Tracker

H.J.Res. 80119th CongressCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Sponsored by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) · 220 active : 1 Republican, 219 Democrats

Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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Where it standsBefore the House

Hasn’t passed either chamber

House: next
Senate: not yet
President: not yet

21 representatives score as swing votes

Summary

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This joint resolution provides that the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, was ratified by three-fourths of the states and is therefore a valid constitutional amendment, regardless of any time limit that was in the original proposal.

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The Equal Rights Amendment was originally proposed to the states in 1972. The original proposal included a deadline for ratification of March 22, 1979; Congress subsequently extended the deadline to June 30, 1982. Although the requisite 38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications. The status of the amendment has been the subject of litigation.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on the Judiciary · HouseReferred to

Subjects

No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.

Senate · 100 House · 433

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the Senate breaks down

9Swing 70–100
62Middle 30–70
29Entrenched 0–30

Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the Senate

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine

Similar past votes, Senate

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S.J.Res. 4 · Apr 27, 2023 · Roll call 99On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedA joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

220 active

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How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.