Senate Budget Committee Chairman Whitehouse Issues Opening Statement at Hearing on Railroad Employee Equity & Fairness Act
March 26, 2024
March 26, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode, Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 6, 2024, on the Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act (S. 1274):
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This morning, the Committee will consider and vote on S. 1274, the Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness, or REEF Act. This bipartisan legislation would permanently end mandated cuts to railroad workers' unemployment and sickness i . . .
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This morning, the Committee will consider and vote on S. 1274, the Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness, or REEF Act. This bipartisan legislation would permanently end mandated cuts to railroad workers' unemployment and sickness i . . .