ERA, 28th Amendment Possibly Ratified, now part of constitution

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

...so anything going on with this?

House is voting next week on a joint resolution to remove the deadline, but let's not pretend that it will see the light of day in the Senate.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Given the lack of action by the Archivist so far, I think it's safe to say that until Congress passes a joint resolution to eliminate the deadline, there will be no action from that office and maybe not even then. Sadly, this means not until 2021 at the earliest, since even if there are enuf Senate Republicans to vote to do so, Mitch will mot allow a vote on anything seen as being even marginally critical of Trump or beneficial to Democrats.

And maybe not even 2021, because if its a very narrow democratic majority, filibuster abolishment won't happen, and I don't see deadline removal getting 8 or 9 republican votes.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

The House has voted to abolish the deadline, 232-183: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll070.xml


Five Republicans: Curtis (?), Fitzpatrick, Rodney Davis, Reed, and Van Drew joined all Democrats Present in passing this.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

The House has voted to abolish the deadline, 232-183: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll070.xml


Five Republicans: Curtis (?), Fitzpatrick, Rodney Davis, Reed, and Van Drew joined all Democrats Present in passing this.

Nowhere near the two-thirds margin; they didn't pass an abolishment of the deadline. Amendments have to be proposed by a two-thirds margin; you can't tinker with the proposal afterwards by a simple majority.

See https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/842