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Sep 28 2012
News
The Medicare Program: A Brief Overview FACT SHEET
9 Medicare provides older Americans and people with disabilities with health security. 9 Medicare provides its enrollees with essential coverage for hospital and medical care, and prescription drugs as well as preventive and other health services. 9 Medicare spending growth is expected to slow over the next decade and extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.
AARPJan 27 2015
News
The CBO's Good News, Bad News Economic Report
The federal deficit is on track to its lowest level as a percentage of the economy since 2007, and the economy is stronger than expected.
That's the good news from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's new economic outlook released Monday. "Economic activity will expand at a solid pace in 2015 and over the next few years — reducing the amount of underused resources, or 'slack,'
NPR (Online News)Mar 21 2019
News
Top House Republican on mission to publish explosive Russia probe files
House Republicans have lost the majority, but they're not giving up the bullhorn they've used to challenge the Russia probe narrative.
Amid the frenzied anticipation over the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee has made a mission of publishing a slew of transcripts from closed-door interviews by the panel dating back
Fox News DigitalMay 25 2012
News
An Often Procrastinating Congress Is Raring at the Gate on Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON  It is a maxim in Congress these days: If high-profile legislation affecting millions of Americans is about to expire, deal with it at the last possible second, preferably with rancor. But a major exception is in the offing with the Bush-era tax cuts, which are set to lapse on Jan 1. Both parties in the House and the Senate are eager, perhaps even giddy, at the prospect of
New York Times (News)Jan 24 2015
News
Closing Guantanamo Would be the Worst Decision of the Obama Presidency
Every American should ask themselves this question: “Do I feel safer with detainees IN or OUT of Guantanamo Bay?”
If your answer is “IN” then you need to immediately contact your Congressional representatives and demand the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remain open, and that President Barack Obama stop releasing and transferring detainees IMMEDIATELY.
The BlazeSep 13 2019
Opinion
Moderates stood out in the third debate. Too bad it won’t make much of a difference.
The good news was that we finally got all top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination on the stage at the same time, for a single debate. The bad news was that it was three hours long and that 10 participants vying for attention still make for a sometimes rancorous event. ABC moderators replowed familiar ground on health care but managed to conduct the most substantive debate so
Jennifer RubinJun 28 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Facial Recognition Tech Straight Out of 'Robocop' Could Be a Real Threat to Civil Liberties
As governments and law enforcement agencies rush to incorporate facial recognition tech, California lawmakers have a chance to slam on the brakes.
Nearly a decade ago, the spokesman for a company that produces Tasers and body cameras for police departments envisioned the day when "every cop is Robocop." He was referring to then-nascent facial-recognition software, which lets police nab
Guest Writer - RightJan 22 2015
News
FCC weighs plan to use Russian satellite network for 911 system, raising security concerns
If American astronauts hitching a ride from the Russians to the International Space Station didn't ruffle enough feathers, there's growing concern about a proposal to use Moscow's satellites to transmit America's 911 emergency calls.
Wireless carriers and public safety organizations have pitched the idea of using Russia's system to the Federal Communications Commission, as part of
Fox News DigitalOct 30 2013
News
Democrat Landrieu to propose halting vanishing health plans
Sen. Mary Landrieu said Wednesday she would propose legislation to ensure all Americans could keep their existing insurance coverage under Obamacare, a fresh sign of the political problems the law’s rollout has created for congressional Democrats.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/mary-landrieu-vanishing-health-pla...
PoliticoDec 07 2015
News
Campaign finance laws may be making political polarization worse by encouraging ‘purist’ donors.
Many Americans have become increasingly concerned over the role of money in politics, and back more populist approaches to reducing political donations. Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner, authors of Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail, argue that populist approaches such as imposing low contribution limits on parties, distort the campaign finance system in
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