representative lynn westmoreland, republican of georgia.ater on, representative jan schakowsky joining us, she serves the state of illinois and democrat from that state. we will have those discussions as "washington journal" continues right after this. ♪ >> had the e.r.a. past, it would have nullified dozens of arcane state laws limiting women's rights. they would no longer, for example, be subject to mechanisms of wage discrimination that persist even today, and symbolically, women would have been recognized, and this is even more important, i think, both as mothers as well as workers. and the biggest irony of this story is that it was a well organized, articulate campaign of activist women who engineered the defeat of the e.r.a.. >> the backlash against the women liberation movement sunday at 1:00 eastern on c-span3 american history tv. >> the book tells a story, it tells a story of a nuclear -- of a nucleus -- of a nuclear weapons accidents that occurred in 1980. and i use that story, that narrative, as a way of looking at the management