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On the recordDecember 19, 2020
another Congress is ending, a President's term is coming to a close, and, yet again, this Senate, the President, Washington have failed to address the pension crisis facing far too many workers. The American people are tired of waiting for us to do our jobs, and they are tired of being told by Leader McConnell and President Trump: You are on your own. The House has twice passed legislation that would address the multiemployer pension crisis, but under Leader McConnell the Senate has failed these Americans. As for the White House, I don't even think President Trump knows, much less cares, about the multiemployer pension crisis. We ought to be working to support all the workers and retirees around the country whose lives have been upended during this pandemic, and that should include more than a million Americans in multiemployer pension system. After a lifetime of hard work and service to our country, they have already waited too long for Congress to do its job and to protect the benefits that these workers earned through a lifetime of work. We have been trying to solve this crisis for years. The House has done its part. They passed the solution multiple times now. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate, is deliberately blocking it, and his party and his Members and the President support him in blocking it.…
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio
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Dec 19, 2020

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