Rich Neal: “I include in the Record a letter from the Church Alliance. Church Alliance, April 1, 2019. Hon. Richard Neal, Chairman…”

“I include in the Record a letter from the Church Alliance. Church Alliance, April 1, 2019. Hon. Richard Neal, Chairman, House Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, DC. Hon. Kevin Brady, Ranking Member, House Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, DC. Hon. Ron Kind, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Hon. Mike Kelly, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Neal, Ranking Member Brady, Congressman Kind and Congressman Kelly: The Church Alliance expresses our deep gratitude for inclusion of a provision to clarify that all church-affiliated organizations are able to participate in church 403(b)(9) retirement plans in the recently introduced Setting Every Community up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 (H.R. 1994). We are grateful for the tremendous bipartisan work that has been done over the past several years on retirement reform, and are hopeful Congress will swiftly pass this legislation to ensure retirement security for clergy, lay workers and their families across the United States. The Church Alliance is a coalition of the chief executive officers of 37 church benefits boards which are affiliated with mainline and evangelical Protestant denominations, three Jewish groups, and some Catholic schools and institutions.…”