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NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
THI S WEE K IN W A SHI N G TON
THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The House Committee on Ways and Means favorably reported without
recommendation H.R. 82, the "Social Security Fairness Act," by voice vote.
While this does mean that the bill is pending before the House, it cannot be
added to the Consensus Calendar and will not be automatically brought to the
floor. The House is unlikely to consider H.R. 82 as a standalone measure, but,
during the mark-up, Committee Members did express the desire to consider a
broader Social Security reform package before the end of this Congress that
would contain some change to the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and
the Government Pension Offset (GPO).
The House passed two FOP-supported bills. The first, H.R. 5768, the “Violent
Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act,”
which would establish a grant program to help State, Tribal, and local law
enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides, non-fatal
shootings and other violent crimes, was passed on a 250-178 vote.
H.R. 6448, the “Invest to Protect Act,” which establish a grant program for the
training of officers from police departments and municipalities that employ
less than 125 law enforcement officers, was passed on a 360-64 vote. The
bills now await further action in the Senate.