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• Senate Passes $1.1 Trillion Federal Budget Agreement, Obama Signs it into Law

  December 19, 2014: After a day of drama and partisan wrangling, the Senate voted 56-40 on Saturday to send a government funding bill to President Barack Obama for his signature. Obama then signed the bill into law on Tuesday. The $1.1 trillion leg Read More >

• Sherrod Brown to Introduce Harkin Bill to Expand Social Security in 114th Congress

  December 12, 2014: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has announced plans to reintroduce Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) Strengthening Social Security Act in the next Congress. The bill would change the Social Security benefit formula, ensuring that cost of livin Read More >

• Illinois Pension Reform Law Ruled Unconstitutional

  December 05, 2014: A Sangamon County Circuit Court judge ruled before Thanksgiving that an Illinois law aimed at easing the state's unfunded pension liability is unconstitutional, handing a victory to labor unions and state retirees who challenged t Read More >

• Thank Social Security Hero Tom Harkin!

  November 21, 2014: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is retiring after 40 years of dedicated public service, including the championing of policies and legislation benefiting Social Security and Medicare recipients and their families. One of those pieces of leg Read More >

• Winners in the Midterm Elections Will Affect Policies via the Budget

  November 14, 2014: The New York Times reports that Congressional Republicans intend to present a plan to overhaul Medicare, calling for vouchers that they call “premium supports” to steer people 65 and over into buying private health insurance. Read More >

• Election Results Heavily Favor Republicans over Democrats

  November 07, 2014: A Republican tide swept over the country Tuesday, giving the GOP full control of Congress. The GOP’s crowning achievement was capturing a majority in the U.S. Senate. Republicans have picked up seven Senate seats and will have a Read More >

• Don’t Forget: Tuesday is Election Day!

  October 31, 2014: Tuesday, November 4 is Election Day, and seniors in every state will be affected by the results. If right-wing extremists take over both houses of Congress, then Social Security and Medicare will be direct targets of the majority Read More >

• Social Security Benefits will Increase by 1.7% in 2015

  October 24, 2014: Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 64 million Americans will increase 1.7% in 2015, the Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday. The Social Security Act ties the annual Read More >

• Health Experts: Sequester and Other Budget Cuts Left us Vulnerable to Ebola

  October 17, 2014: Health experts are saying that the budget cuts, including sequestration, resulting from fiscal conservatives’ goal of cutting government at all costs, has greatly exacerbated the Ebola crisis in Africa and left the U.S. vulnerab Read More >

• Astronomical Prices of Some Cancer Drugs Hit Vulnerable Patients Hard

  October 10, 2014: 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on the high price of cancer drugs in the U.S. Lesley Stahl’spiece shed light on the fact that Medicare has to pay the price determined by the drug companies, since under current law, Medicare is p Read More >