HCM 2006 Summary

• Urges the United States Congress to remove the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by enacting Senate Joint Resolution 15 and House Joint Resolution 43 in the 113th Congress.

• Argues that the time limit for ERA ratification is in the resolving clause and not part of the actual amendment text, which has already been ratified by 35 states.

• Cites the precedent of the 27th Amendment, which was ratified 203 years after being proposed, and Congress's 1978 extension of the ERA deadline as evidence that time limits in resolving clauses can be disregarded.

• Asserts that Congress is uniquely positioned to judge the nation's tenor and determine the validity of state ratifications occurring after a resolving clause deadline.

• Directs Arizona's Secretary of State to transmit the memorial to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and Arizona's members of Congress.