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Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand Social Security benefits are intensifying, ... The WEP impacts about 2 million Social Security beneficiaries and the GPO nearly 800,000 retirees.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hasn’t yet brought the Act to a vote and only has until yearend to do so, said The Seniors Citizens League, a nonpartisan seniors group. Otherwise, the bill ...
In the roll call vote, 76 senators voted in favor of the bill, and 20 senators voted against it. ... “In 2003, I held the first-ever Senate hearing on the WEP and the GPO, and I am pleased that ...
The bill passed the House of Representatives last month on a 327-75 vote, and on Wednesday Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, spoke about his desire to get the act to the president's ...
Senate Majority Chuck Schumer last week started the process for a final vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which would eliminate two federal policies that keep a portion of Americans from ...
The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO. The House voted to pass the legislation Nov. 12, and the Senate approved it ...
The Social Security Fairness Act cleared a key procedural hurdle Wednesday, soaring past the 60 votes it needs to advance by a vote of 73-27. This puts the legislation on a glide path toward final ...
The Senate voted overwhelmingly in the early hours of Saturday to pass legislation to boost Social Security benefits for more than 2 million Americans. ... argued that WEP was enacted to “fix ...