From the New York Times, I'm Michael Wobaro.

This is the Daily.

Today.

The pitch to President Biden from dozens of congressional Democrats is simple.

With a single phone call, they've told him, he can revolutionize women's rights

and revive his damaged legacy in the process. The question now is whether they're right,

and even if they are, whether Biden is willing to do it.

It's Monday, December 23rd.

Hello, Annie Carney.

Hello, Michael Barbaro.

You are actually joining us from inside Congress, where there has been lots of news over the past few days, and we are grateful for you making time for us.

I'm happy to be here. I'm sitting on the house side in a small recording booth.

Yeah, it looks very cozy. This story begins with a quest to do something that, from today's perspective,

a lot of people might think is already baked

into American law, but it's not.

So tell us the whole story of why it's actually not.

So this is a story that starts about a century ago, and it's a pretty remarkable story

about a very simple idea.

And that is that men and women should be equal under the law in the United States, and that

discrimination based on sex should be prohibited.

That's the whole thing. But it's never actually been put into the

Constitution in such plain language. Right, that men and women must be treated equal under the eyes of law.

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