View as Webpage At this time of year, it is traditional to celebrate victories and anticipate looming challenges. Let’s start with victories. A Pew Research Center analysis, released last week, documents President Biden’s success in creating a federal bench that looks more like America. Nearly two-thirds of the federal judges appointed by President Biden are women, and […]

View as Webpage The push to repeal the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) gained momentum at a Nov. 20 field hearing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, convened by the House Ways and Means Committee. Witnesses who testified at the hearing—the first in many years—included octogenarian Paula Porter, a teacher for 38 years whose husband […]

The good news is what did NOT happen last week: a government shutdown or a vote on the most extreme education funding bill ever to reach the House floor. You played an important role in that victory, sending more than 125,000 calls and messages to Congress on education funding in the last 4 months alone.  On Wednesday, […]