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State Rep. Tracy Marra testifies in support of HB 6090 which will allow Narcan to be available in vending machines. Rep. Marra proposed the bill.
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
ABA Criminal Justice Section Chair Testifies before US House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Over-Criminalization on Collateral Consequences of Conviction
Here I am pitching to support the efforts to restore the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, WA before the Tacoma City Council. The fate of the Winthrop is not yet decided.
20 February 2024, Ukraine Testifies Screening
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4/23/15: TWU International President Harry Lombardo
testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the importance of reauthorizing MAP-21, the federal surface transportation funding legislation.
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 20, 2025. (DHS photo by Mikaela McGee)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before the House Appropriation Committee Homeland Security Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 6, 2025. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)
State Rep. Tracy Marra testifies in support of HB 6090 which will allow Narcan to be available in vending machines. Rep. Marra proposed the bill.
Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is surrounded by media while leaving at the courthouse in Ottawa, Canada, August 19, 2015. Wright was testifying in the trial of suspended Senator Mike Duffy, who is accused of receiving a bribe and abusing expense claims. REUTERS
Jim Morris testifies at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Air Quality Control Commission hearing on Xcel's Valmont coal-powered generating station air quality permit renewal, Boulder County courthouse, Boulder, Colorado, USA
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
An unsigned 8 ½ x 11 single-side flyer lists the organizations that testified in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) at a 1974 bill hearing in the Virginia General Assembly.
The full text of the Equal Rights Amendment is:
Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
The ERA had broad support among both left-leaning and centrist groups. Conservative and far right-wing groups generally opposed it. The organization that stands out for its opposition to the ERA is the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
Communists had historically been champions of women’s rights and the opposition seemed incongruous.
The CPUSA initially opposed the ERA because it would wipe out protective legislation for women in industry such as restrictions on working hours. Instead the Communist Party helped to initiate a Charter Movement in the 1930s that sought to eliminate sex-based discrimination in employment, including equal pay and opportunities for all women while preserving and expanding protective legislation.
The Charter’s language protected labor legislation while explicitly guaranteeing equal rights. The text began,
“Women shall have full political and civil rights; full opportunity for education; full opportunity for employment according to their individual abilities, with safeguards against physically harmful conditions of employment and economic exploitation.”
Further it declared that women ‘shall receive compensation, without discrimination because of sex. They shall be assured security of livelihood, including the safeguarding of motherhood.’
The Charter also emphasized the right to unionize and the expansion of the economic justice programs of the government and upheld women’s reproductive rights.
Perhaps the most explicit and central aim of the Charter movement was proclaimed that “…where special exploitation of women workers exists, such as low wages, which provide for less than the living standards attainable, unhealthful working conditions, or long hours of work which result in physical exhaustion and denial of the right to leisure, such conditions shall be corrected through social and labor legislation, which the world’s experience shows to be
necessary.”
The Charter movement took hold in many countries around the world with its emphasis on women’s rights in the workplace.
The formation of the Charter movement effectively split women activists at the time. During the period of the 1930s and 1940s the CPUSA enjoyed its largest numbers and had influence far beyond its membership.
Communist leaders argued against the ERA, Denise Lynn quoted communist leaders in her 2014 paper on the issue.
“In a memo to local CPUSA women’s committees, Cowl [Margaret Cowl, head of the CPUSA’s Women’s Commission] outlined the CPUSA’s opposition to the ERA. The amendment, Cowl argued, sounded progressive, but it would ‘do away with all industrial laws which apply to women and not to men;’ more specifically, ‘it would cancel all state minimum wage laws applying to women alone.’ Earl Browder head of the CPUSA, echoed Cowl’s concern, claiming that not only would the amendment eradicate existing legislation, but it would ‘prevent the enactment of protective legislation thereafter.’”
The second Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s decimated the CPUSA and though it continued to provide organizational muscle to a number of causes, including civil rights, labor, and anti-Vietnam War activities, its influence was greatly diminished.
Further, in the U.S., the Civil Rights Act of 1964 effectively nullified much of the protective legislation still in place and provided for equal pay, job access and other conditions for women in the workplace.
In 1976 the CPUSA dropped its opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and came out in favor of it.
A 2020 post by CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi described the later campaign:
“In February 1982, Virginia fell a vote short in the state Senate of passing the ERA after a Republican senator, Nathan Miller, took a business trip to avoid voting on the amendment, Shockley wrote.
“The world doesn’t stop because the General Assembly starts,” Miller told the Post at the time.
“Fowler and another activist, Pat Winton, chased Miller down at the Richmond airport to try to prevent him from leaving, according to Shockley.
“A news report quoted Fowler as saying the senator had looked “sheepish” when they caught up with him, and he avoided them by ducking into the men’s room, Shockley wrote. Miller didn’t respond to a CNN request for an interview.
“Falling one vote short was a feeling of “intense disappointment,” McCoy told CNN, adding that they had been let down when some candidates promised support for the ERA, only to change their minds once elected.
“’We all kept up a strong front and kept our emotions in check. There had been a number of disappointments before then. There was no demonstration as a group or as individuals to show our disgust,’ she recalled.
“Activists tried to keep the ERA alive by filing suit in the Virginia Supreme Court, which did not take up the matter, according to Shockley. By the June 1982 deadline, only 35 states had ratified the ERA – three shy of the threshold needed to add it to the Constitution – and five that had previously passed it by then had rescinded their support, throwing its future into serious doubt.”
The campaign was renewed in the 21st century and after a more progressive Democratic Party took control of both Virginia legislative bodies in 2017, the ERA was passed in 2018. The ERA has now been passed by 38 states and activists are demanding that it be recognized as a valid amendment to the Constitution.
The effort now lies before the courts.
For a PDF of this single-side, 8 ½ x 11 flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1974-E...
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Original held in the Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council Records, Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections.
Members of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee gathered to listen to consumers talk about how the new health care law is already making a major difference in their lives. The survivors of insurance abuses included Stacie Ritter and her twin 12-year-old daughters Hannah and Madeline. The Ritters, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, suffered through bankruptcy and a battle with an insurance company that denied their pediatrician’s recommended treatments to help the girls grow to their full potential despite side effects from leukemia therapies. Stacie Ritter said she is relieved that her children will never have to fear lifetime caps or being denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, thanks to the ACA.
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. testified before the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing titled “The Future of the Transportation Security Administration.”
University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross testifies before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Washington DC. May 8, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before the House Appropriation Committee Homeland Security Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 6, 2025. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)
Governor Maura Healey, Secretary of Administration and Finance Matthew Gorzkowicz and Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver testify before the Joint Committee on Transportation in support of the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s Chapter 90 bill at the State House on April 10, 2025. The bill would significantly increase funding for roads and bridges for municipalities across the state. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before the House Appropriation Committee Homeland Security Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 6, 2025. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)
State Representative Harry Arora (R-Greenwich) testifying in opposition to tolls during a public hearing of the Transportation Committee on January 31, 2020.
Washington : Defense Secretary Ash Carter pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. testified before the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing titled “The Future of the Transportation Security Administration.”