Congress Saves the Postal Service but Shifts Costs to Medicare Recently we reported that the House of Representatives had passed a bill that would go a long way toward keeping the U.S. Postal Service solvent and in bu ...

Congress Still Working to Stop Government Shutdown It does not get covered much in the news, but Congress still has not been able to pass the legislation needed to fund the government through the rest of the 2022 fisc ...

Supreme Court Vacancy Shuffles Senate Schedule Congress is back in session this week after being out of session last week. They already had their hands full with the amount of work they need to do and the announcement ...

Efforts to Lower Drug Prices Still Alive Unless you do not pay attention to the news at all, you know that passing legislation to lower the prices of prescription drugs in the Senate has two main obstacles: in additio ...

Congress Returns to Washington The members of Congress returned to Washington last week and began what is known as the Second Session of the 117th Congress.  They have a full agenda to deal with including some very pr ...

This past weekend West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced he will not vote to pass the legislation that would lower prescription drug prices. The drug price reduction provision is part of the “Build Back B ...

House Holds Hearing on Important Social Security Bill Last week the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the Social Security 2100 Act: A Sacred Trust. The bill was autho ...

Congress Punts Once Again Late last week Congress dealt with funding the federal government for fiscal year 2022, which began last October 1, in the way we have been predicting:  they punted. They managed to agree ...

Social Security Bill Would Boost Benefits For all Beneficiaries And Trust Fund Financing By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Social Security legislation containing a number of provisions that would strengthen and ...