Social Security Benefit Cuts Need to be Stopped Last week House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) reiterated the need for Congress to prevent an unintended and unanticipated So ...
Category: Legislative News
January 23, 2021
In Congress this Week While the pending impeachment trial of former President Trump, the continuing coronavirus disaster, and the debate over President Biden’s new economic stimulus bill has dominated the news, there ...
January 16, 2021
New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced. ...
Legislative Update: January 2021
Emergency 3% COLA, Social Security And Medicare Issues Land on the Congressional Priority List By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Before the New Year even started, TSCL had been working to convince Members of ou ...
January 2, 2021
As we begin a new year, we hope you had the best holiday season possible under the conditions we all continue to face because of the coronavirus pandemic. We know the past ten months have been extremely hard for many Am ...
December 19, 2020
Barring any unexpected news relating to seniors this will be our last update for this year. It has been an incredibly tough year. We hope that despite all the challenges we all face, the health risks and the distancing ...
December 12, 2020
Congress Still Working to Avoid Government Shutdown If it weren’t for the coronavirus and the start of the vaccination program against it the top news story would probably be the fact that Congress still can’t reach a ...
December 5, 2020
Congress Still Can’t Get Its Work Done Congress has until the end of this Friday to pass legislation to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2021. Very few people think they’ll get it done. ...
Weekly Update for Week Ending November 7, 2020
Senate Returns to Work this Week The Senate returns to work this week in what is known as a “lame-duck session.” The term refers to the fact that for some members of the current Congress, this will be their last few ...
October 31, 2020
Government Issues New Health Care Cost Transparency Rules In an effort to inject transparency into the obscure costs of health care the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new rules that will requ ...