Equal Rights Amendment blocked by Senate GOP.

The Senate failed to advance a resolution to remove the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, with most GOP senators opposing it. The ERA would ban discrimination on the basis of sex and guarantee equality for all under the Constitution. The failed resolution would have waived the deadline, paving the way for the ERA to be adopted if both chambers of Congress passed and it was signed into law by the President. The ERA has been ratified by 38 states, seemingly meeting the required three-fourths needed to be approved.