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 ...

Congress Takes a Break – Again! Even though they have such important issues they must deal with before the end of the year, Congress is in recess this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is hard to believe th ...

New Prescription Drug Price Reduction Agreed on Last week the Democratic majorities in Congress reached an agreement on new measures to begin reducing prescription drug prices.  These are not as far-reaching as those ...

Social Security 2100 bill Reintroduced We start this week’s update with good news! Last week Congressman John Larson (D-Conn.), Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, in ...

Provision Allowing Medicare To Negotiate Drug Prices Part Of Reconciliation Legislation, But Fate Not Certain By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Prescription drug costs are a major concern for retired and disabl ...

No End in Site for the Stalemate in Congress For the last month, at least, we’ve been reporting each week on the fate of attempts by the slim Democratic majorities in Congress to put together legislation that would im ...

Senate Passes Bill to Avoid Default Despite a monumental work load before the end of the year, the Senate is not in session this week.  Last week they managed to come up with enough votes to prevent a default on the n ...