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Social Security Subcommittee

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House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security

Showing the 117th Congress (2021–2022). Back to the 119th Congress

81 bills referred in the 117th Congress

661 across the 12 Congresses on file, more in this Congress than in any other. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 118th

Members

Served in the 117th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 117th Congress

Members, 117th Congress 13

Everyone listed on the subcommittee in the 117th Congress, from printed hearings, the Congressional Directory and the official rosters.

Seat	Member	Role
D-CT	John B. Larson	Chair
R-GA	A. Drew Ferguson IV
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.
D-NY	Brian Higgins
R-TN	David Kustoff
R-AZ	David Schweikert
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer
D-WI	Gwen Moore
R-TX	Jodey C. Arrington
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez
D-NV	Steven Horsford
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell
R-SC	Tom Rice

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 117th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 117th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HR 5050	Social Security Enhancement and Protection Act of 2021	Referred To	Aug 17, 2021
HR 4851	Protecting Our Widows and Widowers in Retirement (POWR) Act	Referred To	Jul 29, 2021
HR 4823	Social Security Disability Insurance Return to Work Act	Referred To	Jul 29, 2021
HR 4788	Wellbeing for Every Public Servant Act of 2021	Referred To	Jul 29, 2021
HR 4396	Holding SSA Employees Accountable Act	Referred To	Jul 9, 2021
HR 4315	Fair COLA for Seniors Act of 2021	Referred To	Jul 1, 2021
HR 4258	Improving Digital Identity Act of 2021	Referred To	Jun 30, 2021
HR 4289	WISH Act	Referred To	Jun 30, 2021

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 117th Congress.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	Strengthening Social Security’s Customer Service 7 witnesses Grace Kim, Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Social Security Administration Tracey Gronniger, Directing Attorney, Justice in Aging Bethany Lilly, Senior Director of Public Policy, The Arc of the United States Peggy Murphy, Immediate Past President, National Council of Social Security Management Associations Yanira Cruz, President and CEO, National Hispanic Council on Aging Alison Weir, Policy Advocate and Attorney, Greater Hartford Legal Aid Rebecca Vallas, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation	Scheduled	May 17, 2022
Hearing	The Fierce Urgency Of Now – Social Security 2100: A Sacred TrustLongworth House Office Building 1100 10 witnesses Nancy Altman, President, Social Security Works Shaun Castle, Deputy Executive Director, Paralyzed Veterans of America Yanira Cruz, President and CEO, National Hispanic Council on Aging Andrew Biggs, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Elizabeth (Bette) Marafino, President, Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans Amy Matsui, Director of Income Security and Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center Rachel Greszler, Research Fellow in Economics, Budget and Entitlements, The Heritage Foundation Hilary Shelton, Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy, NAACP Max Richtman, President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Robert Roach, Jr., President, Alliance for Retired Americans	Scheduled	Dec 7, 2021
Hearing	Equity in Social Security: In Their Own WordsLongworth House Office Building 110210 documents 5 witnesses Julian Blair Elba Lopez Cora McDonnell Kitty Ruderman Mary Widmier	Scheduled	Jun 15, 2021

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Reported	Became law	Meetings
119th2025–2026, sitting	13	0	0	0	4
118th2023–2024	14	66	0	1	8
117th2021–2022	13	81	0	1	3
116th2019–2020	11	46	0	0	5
115th2017–2018	14	53	0	1	12
114th2015–2016	16	80	0	0	6
113th2013–2014	11	28	0	0	6
112th2011–2012	12	41	0	0	0
111th2009–2010	14	6	0	0	—
110th2007–2008	13	67	0	0	—
109th2005–2006	13	55	0	0	—
108th2003–2004	13	77	1	1	—
107th2001–2002	13	61	1	0	—

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Everything here is as published by Congress. Seats run from the 107th Congress, dated by the resolutions that made them and the Congressional Record; referrals and nominations from the 107th; meetings from the 112th. A committee older than that shows less than it has done. A subcommittee's referrals are recorded against it separately from its parent's, so the two lists do not add up. Records come from Congress.gov, GovInfo and the House and Senate.