Scuba,

We just received huge news out of Washington: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has announced that next month he will be re-introducing the Strengthening Social Security Act, keeping up the momentum to expand Social Security benefits.

"With even middle-income seniors relying on Social Security for at least two-thirds of their retirement income, it’s critical that we advance the Strengthening Social Security Act – expanding benefits, strengthening the program’s future, and making retirement more secure for all Americans," said Brown.

Now is the time to build support for Senator Brown’s bill and to ask every member of the U.S. Senate to sign-on as a co-sponsor.

We need a strong show of support to ensure that when Senator Brown introduces the bill in January, he has more co-sponsors than Senator Harkin's bill had last year.

Support Senator Brown’s new expansion bill today and ask every member of the U.S. Senate to become a co-sponsor of the Strengthening Social Security Act.

We'll be working with our partners at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to make sure senators see this grassroots support as we ask them to co-sponsor Brown's Social Security expansion bill in January.

Expanding Social Security is not just a progressive or Democratic issue. Our polling shows that 79% of likely voters – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – support expanding Social Security benefits and paying for it by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. But, too many in Washington are afraid of taking a strong stance on critical issues. They would rather oppose cuts or oppose privatization than take a strong stance on expansion. And that is why Senator Brown needs our immediate help.

Before Senator Brown introduces his expansion bill next month, we must tell every U.S. Senator where we stand. We must urge them to stand with the American people and stand with Senator Brown.

Senator Brown is one of our strongest Social Security champions and he needs our help. Click here to rally his colleagues in support of his new expansion legislation.

We’re not waiting for the new Republican Congress to call for cuts to our earned benefits. We’re staying on offense and rallying around our Social Security champions.

Please, take action today and tell Congress where we stand: Expand, don’t cut Social Security!

Thank you,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works