From The Hill:
A group of House Republicans is making a rare move that would force a vote on a bill to reform aspects of Social Security, stirring unrest in the conference.
The bill at the heart of the push, also dubbed the Social Security Fairness Act, seeks to do away with the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), a proposal that backers on both sides of the aisle argue is long overdue.
The bill enjoys support from more than 100 House Republicans, and almost four dozen have cosigned the effort to use what’s known as a discharge petition to force consideration of the bill — and the strategy is rubbing some in the conference the wrong way.
“In a well-run Congress, no legislator signs a discharge petition if you’re a majority. That is a rule that is never broken,” Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) told The Hill. “And the fact that 47 of my colleagues signed a discharge petition shows that we have an utter lack of discipline.” ...
Republicans say the matter was a topic of debate in a conference meeting earlier this week. ...
Regardless of the House vote, it's very unlikely that this legislation will be voted on in the Senate.
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4 comments:
lol I love the irony that this bill is called "Social Security Fairness Act" when enacting it would be the exact opposite. As it sits, WEP and GPO are much for fair in their current iterations than doing away with both.
I heard the bill was called putting lipstick on a pig. Why is eliminating GPO and WEP such a priority?
I do find it funny that we see a bit of actual democracy, people across the country banding together to have their opinions on something that affects them get heard and are proposing solutions. You don't get so many sponsors with a single lobbying entity, these legislators have been approached by constituents with a grievance. Fair play to them for getting the ear of so many legislators and trying to get their "day in court". Most of us just bitch about things we don't like, these folks run the gamut, have sufficient numbers and geographic dispersion and did something. Again, I say fair play to them for engaging and working our legislative and political system to get their grievance addressed.
It’s an election year and Donny is losing in the polls. Republicans want to push this and then they can scream “see we love social security so much!” to get those sweet sweet retiree votes when the show up to the polls.
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