Democratic Congressional leaders had also hoped to include new benefits for seniors to cover dental, vision and hearing in their Medicare legislative package this year but those also appear to be in danger. According ...

Because of divisions within their own party, top congressional Democrats are acknowledging for the first time they’ll have to scale back their drug pricing plans to win enough votes in order to pass their social spending ...

While so much of the news about Congress last week was what they didn’t do, they did manage to pass a bill to keep the government open through Dec. 3.  The hope is that the extra time will enable them to come to an agree ...

Last week TSCL Chairman Rick Delaney sent letters to the leaders of Congress proposing a one-time $1,400 Social Security stimulus payment for seniors. The letter said in part: We’ve heard from thousands of them [senio ...

LOBP Report 10.5.21 ...