Gerry Connolly actually said...

We've got a lot of Federal employees ready to retire in the baby boom generation. How are we going to replace them...

So I'm going to be an enthusiastic supporter of H.R. 2517 and encourage my colleagues to do the same.

I find it odd that somebody would even suggest inferentially that this benefit provision, could itself constitute discrimination against fol...

As Representative Baldwin indicated, look at other ways of trying to address the issue of fairness in the provision of benefits.