David Thomas: “I can tell my colleagues right now that in California, no serious and responsible professional teacher would think that…”

“I can tell my colleagues right now that in California, no serious and responsible professional teacher would think that their 20 or 25 years devoted to the classroom should be capped off by scurrying to another school district where there is clear collusion between the districts to allow for 1 day, 1 week, or 1 month of employment so that they can scam the system. Now, that is basically what the Green amendment asks us to continue to allow; fortunately not in California, but unfortunately in Texas and perhaps in Georgia. Let me get my colleagues to really understand what is going on here. Is there a problem with the offset? Of course there is. We just had a colloquy on the floor with the chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security and the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Social Security and there was agreement that we will seriously address the pension offset. I have friends of mine who are still in teaching who have implored me to address that. We are in the process of addressing it.”