On the recordJuly 24, 2019
At the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans hearing last year, my constituent Carol Podesta-Smallen said that her monthly benefits were on the verge of being cut by 61 percent--read that--from $2,600 to $1,022. Imagine that loss. ``My biggest fear,'' she told the committee, ``is losing my home'' and ``ending up in a shelter.'' Thanks to the Butch Lewis Act, which creates a unique public-private partnership, 1.3 million working Americans might not have to fear any longer.
