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

captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> on the next "washington " congressman lynn westmoreland and georgia talks funding of theop health-care law. and representative from illinois discusses a debate over a possible government shutdown. from "themacher national journal" on capitol hill. and charles clarke of the government executive media group examined the effect the shop -- government shutdown would have on the public at large. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the book tells a story. it tells the story of a nuclear weapons accident in damascus, arkansas, that occurred in 1980, and i used that story, that narrative, as a way of looking at the management of our nuclear weapons, really since the first nuclear device was invented in 1945. and i hope to remind readers that these weapons are out there , that they are still capable of being used, and that there's probably no more important thing that our government does then manage them. because these are the most dangerous machines ever built. the subject has fallen off of the radar quite a