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– U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today joined the Michigan Committee to Protect Pensions to address the pension crisis facing more than 30,000 Michiganders and 1.5 million workers and retirees nationwide. Dingell was joined by National United Committee to Protect Pensions President Mike Walden, local Teamsters leaders Kevin Moore and Greg Nowak, and Michigan workers and retirees. The meeting comes as Congress continues to work towards a bipartisan, bicameral solution to the pension crisis.

“Men and women in Michigan and across the country worked a lifetime to retire with the dignity and security promised by their pensions. They earned their retirement with blood, sweat and tears and many sacrifices along the way. They played by the rules, put money into their pension and now they are scared to death about how and what they will live on in their later years,” said Dingell. “It is critical that we continue to work across the aisle - Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate - to address the pension crisis in this country. I am grateful for the leaders in this effort and will continue working alongside them and with workers and retirees to protect the retirement they have earned.”

Dingell has made fighting for a solution to the pension crisis a top priority since coming to Congress and recently introduced the Butch Lewis Act that would ensure multiemployer pension plans remain solvent and continue providing retirement security for members. In February, Dingell was also appointed to the newly-created Joint Select Committee on Solvency and Multiemployer Pensions, tasked with crafting bipartisan legislation to solve the pension crisis this year. The Joint Select Committee will hold at least five public meetings, including one outside of Washington, and report out a solution to their House and Senate colleagues by the end of the year.