This morning, Representative Jeff Landry (R-LA) and representatives from FreedomWorks and the Cato Institute presented a briefing on the Social Security Preservation through Individual Choice Enhancement (SSPICE) Act. In response to the seemingly endless debate over the payroll tax cut, Rep. Landry has introduced this common sense reform bill into the House, while Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) have cosponsored an identical bill in the Senate.

We support this legislation, and here’s why.

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Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. – Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American Journalist and Author

Nearly two years after ObamaCare was signed into law, we are still finding out what was really in the 2,801 page bill. Many are shocked to find out that the intrusive law contains a provision that forces all employers to provide “free” birth control to all female employees by August 2013. Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch or free contraception in this instance.

Last Monday, the 6^th of February, FreedomWorks' Vice President Max Pappas held a conference call with Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana and hundreds of our members.  Congressman Landry gave an update on how things are going in Congress, and also discussed his bill the SSPICE Act, which addresses the payroll tax cut.  We received a lot of positive feedback from those who called in to listen, and we’d like to share the full audio of the call for those who weren’t able to attend: