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BY RACHEL GREENBERG and KAYCIE GORAL | This month marks the the 50th anniversary of the Equal Rights Amendment’s passage in the House of Representatives. On Thursday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a historic hearing about the amendment to examine the final steps necessary to certify.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who chairs the committee, began the hearing outlining how the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has met all requirements for the adoption of a United States constitutional amendment. First proposed in 1923, the ERA was eventually ratified by two-thirds of both houses of Congress and by three-fourths of the states—or 38 states. The final hurdle that remains: certification by the national archivist and publication as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.