Members of Maryland Legislative Women Cocks to announce their 2024 legislative agenda at a news conference. Dale. Edith J. Patterson (D-Calls), Cocks Chairman, is speaking. Photo by Josh Kurtaz.
Around 30 members of the Legislative Women Caucus – formally known as female MLAs from Maryland – earlier this month gathered at a news conference to discuss their priorities for this legislative session. The agenda item included equal rights amendments, extended child care programs and support for the rights of workers.
“When we think about women’s cocks, our priorities have not really changed because we started 52 years ago,” Dell said. Edith J. Patterson (D-Calls), President of the group.
In particular, none of the eight Republican women serving in the General Assembly were present.
Two years ago, Republican members of Caucus resigned in protest when they were bypassed to be the president of one group. The oldest female legislative Cocks in the country has been a bipartisan group, as it is established more than half a century ago with a loose tradition – one that was sometimes interrupted, without too much ranker – Republicans and Democrats to be their leaders every other year.
But two years ago, del. Leslie j. Lopez (D-Montgomery), who was second in line in the Cocks Chain of Command, Dellfrog Dell. Lauren Ericon (R-Harford), a vocal conservative and the first vice-president, who was expected to be elected President for the year. Republican women resigned and excluded Cocks effectively in 2023, although a couple of GOP women participated in some informal meetings and receptions for women MPs.
This year, Democratic and Republican women do not seem close to a synergy.
In an interview, Patterson said that when he took over as the chairman of Cocks, he reached the Dale Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimor County), one of the senior GOP members of the General Assembly and one of the leading conservatives, Republican, Republican, but no agitation has taken place yet.
Patterson said, “They have decided not to participate at this time.”
The Mahasabha has 72 democratic women, compared to eight Republicans-a group including House Speaker Edrien A Jones (D-Baltimor County) and three of the 10 permanent committees of the legislature.
In an interview, Szeliga said that at this point the Republican has complained about both governance and women’s priorities.
“I am really disappointed and hurt that women’s cocks have taken measures to exclude the minority. [party] Members of the House and Senate, ”he said. “It is very clear that they are now Maryland Democrat Women Cocks.”
The Caucas Agenda has moved from the left to the left in the last two years. While both parties were participating, Caucas priorities focused on the challenges of women and children’s health, child care, and women in the workplace on a large scale.
But last year, Caucus made the right to abortion one of its top priorities, which exclude the positions that were orphans for most Republican women in the legislature (Szliga called them “very radical measures”) and this year, Caucas has made a proposal to give a proposal to President Biden and Congress that has sufficient support to join equal rights.
It is a complex calculation that requires the American House and the American Senate to pass a bill that will be lifted to confirm the 1982 deadline of the Congress to confirm equal rights amendment for three-fourths of states-or 38-or 38-or 38-or 38-or 38-or 38-fourth states.
In 1972, the Congress passed the ERA and sent it to the states for recommendation as mentioned in the Constitution. MPs implemented a seven -year time limit to confirm the measurement for 38 states.
Only 35 had confirmed only the amendment until 1978, so the Congress extended the deadline to 1982. But the last three states were required, not confirmed the amendment of the 1982 cutoff decades between 2017 and 2020.
The ERA supporters across the country are pushing to announce amendments to measure the Congress, but are facing resistance to Capital Hill. Women’s Caucas sponsored a rally at the lawyers mall in Annapolis on Monday afternoon, including Lieutenant Gove Aruna Miller (D) and Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) speeches.
Ferguson said in a statement on social media on Monday, “Maryland is fighting to be coded in the US Constitution for more than 60 years for gender equality, and we will no longer stop.”
Dale. Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore County) speaks on the floor of the House of Delegates. Daniel E. File photo by Gens.
Szeliga called Sankalp that the woman Cocks is making “100% virtuous signaling” champion, and said, “If they pass it, it means nothing. It only proves that the Maryland woman Democrat Cocks is irrelevant.”
Szeliga said that Republican women in the legislature have discussed the launch of their own Caucas, but have not found time.
Patterson said GOP refused to re -join women with its democratic colleagues in the Caucas, while unfortunate, “completely their decision.”
Other bills of women are giving priority to this legislative session:
- Dan Dana Jones (D-Aini Arundel) and Sen Cheryl c. A remedy to increase the telehland services from Kagan (D-Montgomery). The House Bill has been excluded from the methods and the means of means, while the Senate Bill is scheduled for hearing in the committee on education, energy and environment on February 28.
- A bill of Dell Palm Queen (D-Montgomery) to expand mammograms and clinical breast examinations provided to women under state breast cancer program. The bill will be heard in the House Health and Government Operations Committee on 28 February.
- A bill of del Jennifer White Holland (D-Baltimore County) and Sen Arthur Ellis (D-Calls) to expand maternal health services in the state. The House hearing in health and government operations is on 6 March and Senate hearing in the Finance Committee is on 14 March.
- Sen Jill P. The legislation of Carter (D-Baltimore City) and Burnis Miraku-North (D-Montgomery), which determines conditions for disorganized women to achieve maternal health services. The Bill is waiting for action by the Senate Judicial Action Committee and the House Edition is being heard in the judiciary committee on 27 February.
- Equal pay for equal work wage transparency bill sponsored by White Holland in the House and Sen and Sen Ariana B. Kelly (D-Montgomery). The House is heard on Wednesday in the Economic Affairs Committee and the finance will listen to the Senate bill on Thursday.
- A bill of Dell Robin Lewis (D-Baltimore City) and Ellis enhances the rights of home health care workers. It has already been heard in both health and government operations and financial committees.
- A bill of Sen Don Gilly (D-Anne Arundel) and Dell Andrew Prouski (D-Aini Arundel) changes the duties of the agency by changing the name of the state department of veteran affairs as the department of veterans and military families and adds additional security to military families. Bill is heard in house and Senate committees.
- Gile bill, which was sponsored by Dell Adrian Bofo (D-Prince George), to restrict discrimination against military spouse in the workplace. Bill, the highest priority of the village Wes Moore (D), has already been heard in the house and Senate committees.
- Dale. A bill of Michelle Gaitan (D-Baltimor County) that will tighten the requirements for teachers in large child care centers. The bill has already been heard in methods and means committee.
- Another child care bill by Gaitan, which will create a commission to implement universal access to high quality elementary education and child care for children aged 3 years and below. The Bill will be heard in the methods and means committee on 28 February.
- Miracu-North and Sen Nancy J. A bill to increase funds for the state’s medical child care grant program by King (D-Montgomery). It is heard in both the house and the Senate.
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