Democrats Peg FECA Reform Proposal as Part of 'Race to the Bottom'

Republicans call it "modernization" of the federal workers' compensation program, but Democrats said during a Congressional committee hearing Wednesday that a proposal by the Labor Department to reduce work-injury benefits for retirees and claimants with dependents is a part of the same cost-cutting frenzy that has states competing with each other to make their workers' comp systems less expensive than their neighbors'. "I hate to see the federal government get in the line in the race to the bottom on this," U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, said Wednesday dur...