This is why, this week, I introduced the Bipartisan Social Security Commission Act. In fact, this is my seventh time consecutively leading or co-leading this legislation. The bill creates a bipartisan, bicameral, and independent commission of thirteen members appointed by the President and Congressional leaders in both parties. Within one year of its first meeting, the commission must report to Congress on the 75-year health of Social Security and provide recommendations for how to improve the program.
Create and support a bipartisan Social Security commission to study the program's long-term health and recommend reforms to preserve its solvency.
Occurrences
Evidence
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GovInfo lists H.R. 9187 in the 119th Congress as introduced by Rep. Tom Cole for himself and Rep. Tom Suozzi, referred to House Ways and Means and Rules, with the official title to establish the Commission on Long-Term Social Security Solvency.
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The introduced bill would establish a 13-member Commission on Long-Term Social Security Solvency and require recommendations and proposed legislation for 75-year solvency, approved by at least nine members, within one year of the commission's initial meeting.
Assessments
Cole materially supported the promised policy by introducing bipartisan federal legislation, H.R. 9187, with Rep. Tom Suozzi to establish a Commission on Long-Term Social Security Solvency. The bill text closely matched the promise by creating a bipartisan commission charged with studying Social Security's long-term solvency and recommending reforms. However, the evidence shows only introduction and referral, not enactment or creation of the commission. Because the promised outcome was not delivered but there was a serious legislative attempt during the same term, this is a failed-delivery case with effort credit.