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attention to what NOW charges
are anti-ERA efforts by an “in
visible lobby.”
NOW President Eleanor
Smeal said Tuesday that insur
ance companies have inflated
profits over the years by over
charging women and linked the
industry to the battle against
ERA, which is still three states
short of the 38 ratifications
needed by the June 30 deadline.
“There is an invisible lobby
against ERA,” she said. “The
forces that are really working to
defeat the ERA are those short
sighted vested interests working
to preserve sex discrimination.”
The NOW president said the
final ratification push will focus
on Illinois,' Florida, Oklahoma
and North Carolina, with major
rallies planned for each state,
special legislative sessions set in
two and a crucial House rules
vote imminent in Illinois.
She told a news conference
NOW will keep on fighting for
ERA and against discrimination,
even if the amendment fails to
be ratified by June 30.
Even wetter than the air
staff photo by John Ryan
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WASHINGTON — Two con
sumer groups sued Congress
and the Federal Trade Commis
sion Wednesday in an effort to
overturn last week’s congres
sional veto of FTC rules aimed
at protecting used car buyers.
Ellen Broadman, a Consum
ers Union lawyer, said Congress,
in killing the regulations that
took more than a decade to for
mulate, “intruded on powers re
served for the executive and
judicial branches.”
The suit was filed in U.S. Dis
trict Court by Consumer Union,
which publishes the product
testing and evaluation magazine
“Consumer Reports,” and
Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen
Inc.
The House and Senate, in the
first use of their disputed legisla
tive veto power, this spring kil
led the used car regulations by
overwhelming margins.
The rules would have rt-
quired used car dealers to
window stickers in their cars':)
disclose major defects. Fo«
complained the major impact
the stickers would be to raisetk
cost of cars.
Broadman said the ITCwi
named a defendant becaustj
Congress is legally imniui*
from a suit. By adding theag
cy, she said, it is more likely 0
gress will remain a party to
proceeding to protect its if
terests.
The CU-Public Citizen |i
claims that the legislative vett
violates the Constitution's prof!
edit res for lawmaking
amending the law withouta
ing the president a say on $
changes.
The suit also alleges the vet*
infringes on the executitt
branch’s authority to enlorit
the law on deceptive practices.