Federal Retirement Reform Act of 2009

Floor Speech

FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM ACT OF 2009 -- (House of Representatives - April 01, 2009)

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Ms. NORTON. I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for bringing forth this very important set of bills that benefit Federal employees. One that perhaps has not been spoken to I'll speak to now. It's the Employees' Equity Act, which restores credible service or retirement years to District of Columbia employees who were involuntarily transferred to the Federal Government pursuant to the Revitalization Act and, in the process, somehow, by an error of government, not an error of their own, they have lost retirement years. Not money, just years. Some of them are working when they could have retired 10 years ago.

This bill simply restores the years, gives them credit for the years so that, in their transfer from the District of Columbia to the Federal Government, they haven't lost all of those years of service. They have to start over again as if just entering the Federal Government. No one intended that.

And because you, Mr. Chairman, and the ranking member have understood this bill, which has been in the Congress for some time, we come forward now to correct this mistake. Some of them will retire, some of them will stay on, but all of them will have all of their years in public service credited to them. I thank you both.

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