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, […]

View as Webpage New House speaker, same old chaos. Last week, Speaker Johnson pulled two extreme appropriations bills from the floor—because they don’t have the votes—while continuing to refuse to work in a bipartisan manner based on the debt ceiling law passed earlier this year. One of those bills expanded the District of Columbia voucher program—which […]