Mark DeSaulnier: “I would urge my colleagues to join President Biden and congressional Democrats in support of the bipartisan Protecting…”

The denial would eventually be reversed, but the decision came almost a month after Kyree's death.

It has been my privilege in the three decades or more that I have been in elected office, starting with city council to become friends and part of the disability community.

That was the most extreme in the ten years I have been here in Congress.

When ERISA was enacted in 1974, Congress made its intent clear. The law's primary purpose is to 'protect the interest of participants in employee benefit plans, and their beneficiaries.'