By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant “The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry.”  That was authored by 18th century poet Robert Burns, and served as the inspiration for the title of John Steinbeck’s book, ...

This jam-packed week kept The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) team quite busy.  Key events of the past week include: TSCL’s Board of Trustees holding their second meeting of 2011, which included hosting a Welcome Reception ...

Notes from Jessie Gibbons, TSCL Legislative Analyst In February, TSCL attended two Congressional Committee hearings on President Obama’s 2012 Budget.  The House Budget Committee held a hearing with Jacob Lew, Director o ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant givebones.com/text/ Over the past several months many different plans and ideas have surfaced to reduce the federal deficit, including what the government spends on Social Secur ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant During our slow, arduous economic recovery that followed the financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009, many government programs, Social Security in particular, were stre ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant Since passage of Medicare in 1965 all seniors received the same benefits for the same standard premium.  But in 2003, Congress took the unprecedented step of passing legislatio ...

Congress This Week This week, the House of Representatives was scheduled to consider legislation which would repeal the health care reform law.  However, due to the tragic shooting in Arizona over the weekend—which left ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant There’s hardly anyone who isn’t feeling the effects of our “Great Recession.” We’ve learned of seniors sharing depression-era survival techniques with younger family members. ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant In March of this year, after nearly a year of debate in Congress, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. As the initial media coverag ...

Is Entitlement Reform in the Near Future? By Jamie McMillen, TSCL Legislative Director As the month of February came to a close, President Barack Obama held a ‘fiscal responsibility summit’ to address certain long- ...