Congress was back at work this week and they hoped to move ahead with the legislation needed to fund the government for fiscal year 2021, lower prescription drug prices and many other things.  But the coronavirus situati ...

Congress was out of session this week because of the Presidents' Day holiday. Nearly all of those up for re-election (all of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate) were back in their home states and di ...

With the impeachment drama out of the way Congress really got down to business this week. Health care is the number one issue on the minds of voters as we head toward the November elections and Congress knows it. Heal ...

The big legislative health care news this week was President Trump’s call for bi-partisan legislation to lower prescription drug prices in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.  In his address he commended S ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) staff attended a hearing on Capitol Hill this week at the Senate Special Committee on Aging titled, “That’s Not the Government Calling:  Protecting Seniors from the Social Security Imper ...

Legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs remains one of TSCL’s top priorities. Although the House of Representatives has passed a bill to accomplish that priority, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ...

Once again this week the impeachment of President Trump dominated the news involving Congress and Washington in general.  Even so, work continued on a host of other issues, many of which are of great importance to senior ...

Because they could not reach a deal to lower prescription drug prices last year, members of Congress are feeling the pressure this year to get something done to accomplish that goal.  But that runs headlong into the fact ...