I will continue to fight for the fairness that teachers deserve with supporting legislation to fix the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) ... as well as other bills and provisions to restore and help our public education system.
Continue fighting for fairness for teachers by supporting legislation to fix the Windfall Elimination Provision and other measures that restore and help public education.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Babin’s campaign priorities page says he would continue fighting for fairness for teachers by supporting legislation to fix the Windfall Elimination Provision and other measures to restore and help public education.
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Congress.gov identifies H.R. 3934 as a bill that would replace the WEP with a new formula, and the cosponsor list includes Rep. Brian Babin as an original cosponsor.
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Babin wrote that he was proud to cosponsor H.R. 3934, saying it would support teachers; the same newsletter says staff discussed how the WEP affects Texas educators.
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The House Ways and Means Committee says H.R. 3934 would replace the Windfall Elimination Provision with a fairer formula treating teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other public servants like other workers.
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SSA says the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law on January 5, 2025, ended WEP and GPO, and increased benefits for teachers and other public workers with non-covered pensions. SSA also said it began adjusting benefits on February 25, 2025 and had completed sending over 3.1 million payments totaling $17 billion by July 7, 2025.
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The House Clerk recorded Roll Call 456 on H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, as passed 327-75-1 on November 12, 2024. The vote table lists Rep. Brian Babin, Republican of Texas, voting Yea.
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Babin's official latest-news page, checked for the September 5-7, 2026 lookback, lists recent posts including a September 3, 2026 I-47 bill item, July 23 teledentistry legislation, July 16 birthright-citizenship op-ed coverage, and June 4 defense legislation, but no teacher, WEP/GPO, Social Security Fairness Act, or public-education item in the lookback window.
Assessments
Babin materially advanced the concrete WEP portion of the promise by originally cosponsoring WEP-reform legislation and voting for H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, which later became law on January 5, 2025 and ended WEP/GPO for teachers and other public workers. That supports substantial credit, including later-term timing for the enacted result. However, the broader commitment to support other measures that restore and help public education is not separately shown as delivered in the evidence, so the overall promise is best scored as partial rather than fully delivered.
Babin did make a concrete legislative effort by cosponsoring H.R. 3934 and publicly backing WEP reform for teachers. The core WEP-fix portion of the promise was later enacted through the Social Security Fairness Act in 2025, but the broader promise also covered additional measures to restore and help public education, and the record here does not show delivery of that wider part. That supports partial credit rather than full delivery.
Babin made a concrete same-term legislative effort on the central part of the promise by serving as an original cosponsor of H.R. 3934, a bill to replace the Windfall Elimination Provision with a new formula affecting teachers and other public servants, and he publicly tied that support to educators. However, the evidence only shows support and advocacy for WEP reform, not full enactment or a broader record of delivering the promised 'other measures' to restore and help public education. That supports a partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.