WEP Passes....On to the White House

Finally undoing the damage of four decades:

• The Senate passed the Social Security Fairness Act to deliver higher Social Security benefits to millions of public sector retirees.

  The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for a signature after the Senate cleared the legislation just after midnight on Saturday by a vote of 70-26.

  The legislation to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset has been reintroduced each Congress for decades but had not received a vote in either chamber until just this year. The House previously passed the bill in November.

There's scheduled to be an impromptu parade over in Niles later, into St. Adelbert's Cemetery, where retirees will drink, sing, and relieve themselves on the grave of Rostenkowski....so much so that grass won't grow there for at least a decade.