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\"White<\/a>

White House invitation to attend the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Three<\/a>

NARFE National President Bill Shackelford, Staff VP-Policy & Programs John Hatton, and Chapter 1734 President Teresa Baker at the White House.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\u201cThe<\/a>

\u201cThe President\u2019s Own\u201d Marine Band provided splendid entertainment and played \u201cHail to the Chief\u201d when Joe Biden walked into the East Room.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"White<\/a>

John Hatton, Teresa Baker, and Bill Shackelford in the East Room for the bill signing ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"White<\/a>

The White House East Room seems big until filled with lights, cameras, uniformed service members, staff, advocates, elected Representatives, and Senators.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"President<\/a>

U.S. President Joe Biden speaking in the White House East Room before signing the bill.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"U.S.<\/a>

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chapter 1734 of NARFE President Teresa Baker in the White House East Room.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lamppost<\/a>

The White House grounds at dusk.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act after years of advocacy by NARFE to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"parent":31,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-719","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions\/758"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}