Tick Tock....Tick Tock

The clock is running out:

• The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a bill that could restore Social Security benefits to more than three million Americans, including hardworking folks here in Western Pennsylvania.

  The Senate has until Friday to vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, before the clock resets and the process begins all over again. If passed, it would eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).

We're writing this Thursday evening and all the press is about the failed Continuing Resolution disaster that turned into a gigantic pork-filled mess of censorship funding, congressional pay raises and a new NFL stadium fund for Washington DC before collective outrage derailed it.

So now the focus is on preventing a government "shutdown" and we're wondering if the WEP vote is going to be tanked as collateral damage.

Maybe it all changes in the dead of night - that's when these things seem to be resolved lately.