Senate Passes $195 Billion Bill to Increase Social Security Benefits for Government Employees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "These two provisions unfairly reduce or eliminate earned Social Security benefits for more than 2 million Americans who've devoted their careers to public service," they wrote in a press release after the bill passed the House on Nov. 12.
47% : The Social Security Fairness Act, a bill sponsored by retiring Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), will repeal the program's "government pension offset" -- a provision that reduces Social Security payments to beneficiaries who also receive monthly pensions from federal, state, or local governments.
30% : "This bill is absurd - and bankrupts Social Security 6 months earlier," wrote Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who is Paul's counterpart in the House on spending advocacy.
27% : "The Senate voted to blow a hole in the Social Security Trust fund, expanding benefits by $200 billion without any corresponding reduction in spending thus speeding up the bankruptcy of Social Security," wrote Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the Senate's most prominent fiscal conservative who has regularly objected to large spending bills.

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