It will not help fix our debt ceiling crisis, but it will kick one million people off SNAP and exacerbate America’s hunger crisis. Leibman, President & CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. “Make no mistake: this bill is reckless. “The House today threw the American people under the bus in the name of political gamesmanship,” said Abby J. House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill to temporarily raise the debt ceiling, which included drastic provisions to increase time limits and exclusions for SNAP (formerly food stamps), the country’s most important and effective anti-hunger program that serves nearly 40 million Americans each year.
Magazineįrom MAZON: The Jewish Response to Hunger Republicans Block Senate Vote on ERA-But Advocates Vow to Continue the Fight - Ms.
The Senate on Thursday had its first vote on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 40 years. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) joining all Democrats to express support for the resolution. Ultimately, 51 Senators voted for and 47 against the motion, with Republican Sens.
Let that great march towards equality take the next bold step today.” … That is why the Senate today should vote in favor of advancing this ERA resolution, so we can bring our nation one step closer to greater justice, greater equality, and a more perfect union. “It removes the arbitrary deadline for state ratification of the ERA that was imposed in the 1970s. “The resolution is simple,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York). 4 would declare the ERA, “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.” (The ERA has satisfied all Article V requirements to amend the Constitution: a two-thirds vote in the House and the Senate, achieved in 19, and ratification by three-fourths of the states, after Virginia became the 38th and final state in January of 2020.) Constitution (including 90 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds). Polls that show 83 percent of Americans believe the ERA should be incorporated into the U.S. 4, which would declare the ERA ratified and valid, failed to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to bring it to the floor for debate and a vote. “Make no mistake-here is the closest we’ve ever been to seeing full equality recognized and equal rights in the Constitution.” Republicans Block Senate Vote on ERA-But Advocates Vow to Continue the Fight
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