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Majority Of U.S. Reps Support GPO Relief |
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JULY 2001 - Windfall Reform Also Gaining Sponsors - Less than five months after the 107th Congress got underway,
there is already a majority of the House of Representatives sponsoring
the Social Security GPO relief bill (HR 664) – 232 congressmen, as we
went to press, with 218 representing a majority. This is in marked
contrast to the last congressional session (106th) in which it took
almost a year and a half to reach that milestone.“Earlier
this year, led by the National Association of Retired Federal Employees
(NARFE), the Coalition to Assure Retirement Equality (CARE) held a
strategy meeting,” according to Legislative Chairman Bill Hill. “It was
decided then that coalition members would focus their energies on
enlisting as many cosponsors to HR 664 as possible.
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