Because of unanimous Republican opposition to any current legislation being considered to lower prescription drug prices, all eyes are on the Democrats in both the House and the Senate.  In particular, the two Senators r ...

This is what the Associated Press says: Congress is an angry place these days. Four years of Trump’s bellicose presidency, the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters and the high stakes for Democra ...

Despite a monumental work load before the end of the year, the Senate is not in session this week.  Last week they managed to come up with enough votes to prevent a default on the national debt but they only pushed it of ...

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 ...