Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the omnibus spending bill, leaving intact provisions that could cut retiree pensions by as much as 60 percent. That is unconscionable. Since we started writing to you about these retiree pension cuts, you have sent more than 45,000 letters to Congress.

We’re asking for your help one last time. The bill has now moved to the U.S. Senate, where it will be voted on today or tomorrow.

Tell your Senators to strip the provisions that allow cuts in retiree pensions from the omnibus spending bill.

In what could only be described as a scene from a bad movie, the House bill also included protections for Wall Street bankers who engage in high-risk derivative trading – putting taxpayers on the hook for the same risky practices that sent the country into the recession.

Tell your senators: Don’t cut retirees’ pensions while padding the pockets of Wall Street. Put retirees before Wall Street. After you write your senators, learn more about these damaging pension cuts from the Pension Rights Center’s Executive Vice President, Karen Friedman, in recent interviews below.

WRITE your Senators, telling them to put retiree interests before Wall Street.

WATCH Karen Friedman engage in Q&A with callers on this morning’s Washington Journal on C-SPAN.

LISTEN to Karen Friedman on NPR’s Morning Edition where she discussed the harmful retiree pension cuts.

READ the Pension Rights Center’s one-page fact sheet on what the retiree pension cut provisions of the omnibus spending bill would do.

Thank you for all that you do.