Monday Holidays This week most members of the House and Senate are back in their districts or states meeting with constituents or otherwise conducting business there. A few have stayed in Washington to take part in h ...
Category: Legislative News
Update for February 6, 2021
Senate Finally Gets Organized Last week, the two leaders of the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate finally were able to reach an agreement on organizing the Senate for the next two years. An agreement was needed ...
Weekly Update – January 30, 2021
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 ...
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. ...