Lawmakers & Delphi workers not giving up, Susan Muffley Act re-introduced

After about 14 years of fighting, there's yet another push on Capital Hill to get pensions restored for the Delphi Salaried Retirees.
Thousands of workers, many in our Valley, are still waiting on a pension after the 2009 General Motor bankruptcy.
"We are not giving up." That's the message from Delphi workers and two congressmen, a Republican and Democrat who said while they don't agree on everything, they do agree it's their role to help fix a problem that all began in 2009.
The same lawmakers who co-sponsored a bill last year that would restore Delphi pensions, are doing it again.
In 2022, the Susan Muffley Act did pass in the House but fell short in the Senate. Then, about six weeks ago, legislators tried attaching the measure to a big end-of-the-year spending bill.
While that didn't work either, members said overall, this has been the most momentum the issue has got after years of the fight from the Delphi retirees that "built the steam."
"Hopefully, we're getting closer to ending this 14-year-long nightmare," the Chairman of the Delphi Salaried Retirees Association said.
Now, there's another opportunity to work through what house reps co-sponsoring the bill said is their biggest obstacle, "educating" those in congress about the history of the General Motors bankruptcy and federal involvement.
After GM went bankrupt, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation gave full benefits to hourly workers, but not the salaried workers.
"Making that point as forcefully as we can, that this circumstance is a product of a federal government decision," Democratic Congressman Dan Kildee of Michigan said, "When GM was rescued by the federal government, these particular workers got left behind, that's just wrong. It's just plain wrong."
"This is not a pension bailout," Republican Ohio Congressman Mike Turner of District 10 said, "This is in fact restoring what they earned and what is rightfully theirs."