HR 235 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Social Security Fairness Act of 2009

Introduced Jan 7, 2009 Originated House Sponsor Howard L. Berman D-CA

Latest action · Jan 7, 2009 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 7, 2009
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Social Security Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) government pension offset requirements applicable to husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and mother's and father's insurance benefits with respect to OASDI payments; and (2) windfall elimination requirements with respect to computation of an individual's primary insurance amount.

Cosponsors 334

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 7, 2009 to Nov 17, 2010; 81 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-KY	Ben Chandler	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-OH	Betty Sutton	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-CA	Brian P. Bilbray	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-FL	C. W. Bill Young	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-LA	Charlie Melancon	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CT	Christopher Murphy	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-PA	Christopher P. Carney	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-IN	Dan Burton	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-OR	David Wu	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-NV	Dean Heller	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-KS	Dennis Moore	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-CA	Elton Gallegly	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Gene Green	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Henry Cuellar	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-CA	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Jane Harman	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-UT	Jim Matheson	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Joe Baca	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MA	John F. Tierney	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-IL	Judy Biggert	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-PA	Patrick J. Murphy	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-FL	Ron Klein	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-TX	Ron Paul	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MO	Russ Carnahan	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NV	Shelley Berkley	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-AL	Spencer Bachus	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-WI	Steve Kagen	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter	Original	Jan 7, 2009
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-OH	Zachary T. Space	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Jan 7, 2009
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Jan 9, 2009
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Jan 9, 2009
D-PA	Jason Altmire		Jan 9, 2009
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jan 9, 2009
R-NY	John M. McHugh		Jan 9, 2009
R-TX	Louie Gohmert		Jan 9, 2009
R-IL	Mark Kirk		Jan 9, 2009
D-IN	Baron P. Hill		Jan 13, 2009
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Jan 13, 2009
D-NC	David E. Price		Jan 13, 2009
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Jan 13, 2009
R-CA	Jerry Lewis		Jan 13, 2009
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Jan 13, 2009
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Jan 13, 2009
R-IL	John Shimkus		Jan 13, 2009
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Jan 13, 2009
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jan 13, 2009
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer		Jan 13, 2009
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Jan 13, 2009
D-MI	Bart Stupak		Jan 15, 2009
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jan 15, 2009
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Jan 15, 2009
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Jan 15, 2009
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jan 15, 2009
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jan 15, 2009
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Jan 15, 2009
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Jan 15, 2009
R-AL	Mike Rogers		Jan 15, 2009
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		Jan 15, 2009
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Jan 15, 2009
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Jan 22, 2009
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jan 22, 2009
D-PA	Joe Sestak		Jan 22, 2009
R-GA	Lynn A. Westmoreland		Jan 22, 2009
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Jan 22, 2009
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Jan 22, 2009
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jan 22, 2009
D-PA	Tim Holden		Jan 22, 2009
R-NC	Virginia Foxx		Jan 22, 2009
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jan 27, 2009
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Jan 27, 2009
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		Jan 27, 2009
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Jan 27, 2009
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		Jan 27, 2009
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Jan 27, 2009
D-VA	James P. Moran		Jan 27, 2009
R-OH	Jean Schmidt		Jan 27, 2009
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jan 27, 2009
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Jan 27, 2009
R-CA	Mary Bono		Jan 27, 2009
R-GA	Nathan Deal		Jan 27, 2009
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jan 27, 2009
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Jan 27, 2009
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Feb 4, 2009
D-OH	Charles A. Wilson		Feb 4, 2009
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Feb 4, 2009
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Feb 4, 2009
R-TN	David P. Roe		Feb 4, 2009
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Feb 4, 2009
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Feb 4, 2009
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Feb 4, 2009
R-CA	Gary G. Miller		Feb 4, 2009
D-MO	Ike Skelton		Feb 4, 2009
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Feb 4, 2009
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Feb 4, 2009
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Feb 4, 2009
R-TX	Ted Poe		Feb 4, 2009
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Feb 4, 2009
D-MA	Barney Frank		Feb 10, 2009
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		Feb 10, 2009
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Feb 10, 2009
R-AK	Don Young		Feb 10, 2009
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Feb 10, 2009
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Feb 10, 2009
D-MA	John W. Olver		Feb 10, 2009
R-NE	Lee Terry		Feb 10, 2009
R-LA	Steve Scalise		Feb 10, 2009
D-NC	Brad Miller		Feb 13, 2009
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		Feb 13, 2009
R-KY	Geoff Davis		Feb 13, 2009
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Feb 13, 2009
R-OK	John Sullivan		Feb 13, 2009
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Feb 13, 2009
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Feb 13, 2009
D-NY	Steve Israel		Feb 13, 2009
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Feb 13, 2009
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson		Feb 13, 2009
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Feb 24, 2009
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Feb 24, 2009
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Feb 24, 2009
D-IL	Deborah L. Halvorson		Feb 24, 2009
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Feb 24, 2009
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Feb 24, 2009
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Feb 24, 2009
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Feb 24, 2009
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Feb 24, 2009
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Feb 24, 2009
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Feb 24, 2009
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Feb 24, 2009
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Feb 26, 2009
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Feb 26, 2009
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Feb 26, 2009
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Feb 26, 2009
D-CO	John T. Salazar		Feb 26, 2009
D-TN	Lincoln Davis		Feb 26, 2009
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Feb 26, 2009
D-AR	Mike Ross		Feb 26, 2009
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Feb 26, 2009
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Feb 26, 2009
R-NJ	Scott Garrett		Feb 26, 2009
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Feb 26, 2009
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Feb 26, 2009
D-OH	Steve Driehaus		Feb 26, 2009
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Mar 3, 2009
D-GA	David Scott		Mar 3, 2009
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Mar 3, 2009
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Mar 3, 2009
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Mar 3, 2009
D-NJ	John H. Adler		Mar 3, 2009
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Mar 3, 2009
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Mar 3, 2009
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Mar 3, 2009
D-IL	Phil Hare		Mar 3, 2009
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Mar 3, 2009
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Mar 3, 2009
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Mar 9, 2009
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		Mar 9, 2009
D-NV	Dina Titus		Mar 9, 2009
R-CA	George Radanovich		Mar 9, 2009
R-AR	John Boozman		Mar 9, 2009
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Mar 9, 2009
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Mar 9, 2009
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		Mar 9, 2009
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 9, 2009
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Mar 9, 2009
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Mar 9, 2009
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Mar 9, 2009
D-IN	Brad Ellsworth		Mar 12, 2009
D-AZ	Gabrielle Giffords		Mar 12, 2009
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Mar 12, 2009
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Mar 12, 2009
R-MN	John Kline		Mar 12, 2009
R-TX	John R. Carter		Mar 12, 2009
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Mar 12, 2009
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Mar 12, 2009
R-KS	Todd Tiahrt		Mar 12, 2009
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Mar 17, 2009
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Mar 17, 2009
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Mar 17, 2009
D-NY	Eric J. J. Massa		Mar 17, 2009
R-MI	Fred Upton		Mar 17, 2009
D-GA	Jim Marshall		Mar 17, 2009
D-IN	Joe Donnelly		Mar 17, 2009
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Mar 17, 2009
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Mar 17, 2009
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Mar 17, 2009
D-VA	Glenn C. Nye		Mar 24, 2009
D-CT	James A. Himes		Mar 24, 2009
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Mar 24, 2009
D-NY	John J. Hall		Mar 24, 2009
R-FL	John L. Mica		Mar 24, 2009
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Mar 24, 2009
R-MO	Roy Blunt		Mar 24, 2009
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Mar 31, 2009
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Mar 31, 2009
D-AZ	Harry E. Mitchell		Mar 31, 2009
D-CO	Jared Polis		Mar 31, 2009
D-OH	John A. Boccieri		Mar 31, 2009
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Mar 31, 2009
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Mar 31, 2009
D-IL	Bill Foster		Apr 2, 2009
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Apr 2, 2009
R-OK	Mary Fallin		Apr 2, 2009
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Apr 2, 2009
R-NC	Sue Wilkins Myrick		Apr 2, 2009
D-ID	Walter Minnick		Apr 2, 2009
D-TX	Al Green		Apr 21, 2009
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Apr 21, 2009
R-CA	Kevin McCarthy		Apr 21, 2009
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Apr 21, 2009
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Apr 21, 2009
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Apr 21, 2009
D-SD	Stephanie Herseth Sandlin		Apr 21, 2009
D-CA	Jim Costa		Apr 27, 2009
D-OH	Mary Jo Kilroy		Apr 27, 2009
D-NY	Michael A. Arcuri		Apr 27, 2009
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		Apr 27, 2009
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Apr 30, 2009
D-AR	Marion Berry		Apr 30, 2009
D-NY	Michael E. McMahon		Apr 30, 2009
D-WV	Alan B. Mollohan		May 5, 2009
D-IL	Mike Quigley		May 5, 2009
D-FL	Kendrick B. Meek		May 7, 2009
D-IL	Melissa L. Bean		May 7, 2009
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		May 13, 2009
D-IN	André Carson		May 19, 2009
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 19, 2009
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		May 19, 2009
D-MI	Mark H. Schauer		May 20, 2009
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		May 20, 2009
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		May 21, 2009
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Jun 3, 2009
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jun 3, 2009
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jun 3, 2009
R-MO	Sam Graves		Jun 3, 2009
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Jun 3, 2009
D-WA	Brian Baird		Jun 4, 2009
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Jun 4, 2009
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jun 8, 2009
D-MD	Frank Kratovil, Jr.		Jun 8, 2009
D-NH	Paul W. Hodes		Jun 8, 2009
D-GA	John Barrow		Jun 11, 2009
D-NY	Scott Murphy		Jun 11, 2009
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jun 26, 2009
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		Jul 13, 2009
R-OR	Greg Walden		Jul 15, 2009
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jul 15, 2009
D-MI	Gary C. Peters		Jul 20, 2009
R-AL	Parker Griffith		Jul 24, 2009
R-LA	Bill Cassidy		Jul 31, 2009
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Jul 31, 2009
R-MN	Michele Bachmann		Jul 31, 2009
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Sep 8, 2009
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Sep 8, 2009
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Sep 10, 2009
D-CO	Betsy Markey		Sep 29, 2009
R-GA	Phil Gingrey		Sep 29, 2009
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Oct 21, 2009
D-PR	Pedro R. Pierluisi		Nov 3, 2009
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Nov 6, 2009
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Dec 1, 2009
D-CA	Judy Chu		Dec 16, 2009
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jan 20, 2010
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Mar 23, 2010
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Mar 23, 2010
D-FL	Suzanne M. Kosmas		Mar 23, 2010
D-NY	William L. Owens		Mar 23, 2010
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Apr 13, 2010
D-NM	Harry Teague		Apr 13, 2010
D-NY	Daniel B. Maffei		Apr 20, 2010
D-PA	Kathleen A. Dahlkemper		May 6, 2010
R-TX	Kay Granger		May 6, 2010
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson		May 18, 2010
D-CA	John Garamendi		May 18, 2010
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Jun 8, 2010
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Jun 14, 2010
R-MT	Denny Rehberg		Jun 22, 2010
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		Jun 22, 2010
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Jun 24, 2010
R-AL	Jo Bonner		Jun 30, 2010
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jul 29, 2010
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Sep 22, 2010
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Nov 17, 2010

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jan 7, 2009

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 7, 2009Introduced in House
Jan 7, 2009Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 111-36	MANAGING THE THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN TO THRIVE111 pages	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Nov 3, 2009

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 484	Social Security Fairness Act of 2009	Identical bill	Feb 25, 2009

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.
Short Titles as Introduced: Social Security Fairness Act of 2009

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 7, 2009Introduced in House

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