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FAQs: How Do Competing Budgets Compare on Health Care Savings?

Posted on 03/13/2013 by | News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsFrom Kaiser Health News Republican and Democratic leaders from both chambers of Congress this week offered competing budget proposals that both look for savings in health care. KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about what’s next for the proposals, and what President Obama could offer himself. > > Listen to the audio or read a transcript below. Jackie Judd: Good day, this is Health on the Hill. I’m Jackie Judd. Congressional budget leaders have now laid out their vision for federal spending …

Obama Says He Can’t ‘Jedi Mind Meld’ a Budget Deal

Posted on 03/1/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Jim Kuhnhenn of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A combative President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers Friday for failing to stop automatic spending cuts from beginning to kick in late in the day, arguing he can’t perform a “Jedi mind meld” to get Republicans to agree on a deal. But he and GOP leaders displayed no appetite for letting the fight shut the government down later this month. Meeting on the day that $85 billion in federal spending …

Stop the Sequester (Wait … What’s a Sequester?)

Posted on 02/22/2013 by | News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsThe major budget cuts looming on March 1 are a bad idea, whether you know much about them or not. That’s one takeaway from a new poll by the Pew Research Center and USA Today on issues that are likely to dominate the political landscape this year. By a 9 point margin (49 to 40 percent), those polled favored finding a way around the $85 billion in spending cuts scheduled for military and most domestic programs — known in Washington …

Does Washington Have Anywhere to Go But Up?

Posted on 01/4/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsCould things in Washington actually get dire enough to force politicians to work together? Capitol Hill veteran G. William Hoagland thinks so. When I talked with him for the AARP Bulletin, he made the case that with so many crucial deadlines coming up, lawmakers will need to find a new/old way of doing business — namely, putting their partisan differences aside and working together to get things done. Hoagland, a senior vice president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, sees a …

These Freshmen Aren’t Ho Hum

Posted on 01/3/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsWhile many members of the freshmen congressional class sworn today are new to Washington, they bring plenty of experience — political and otherwise — to Capitol Hill. Ten of the 12 freshmen senators — including former governors Angus King of Maine and Tim Kaine of Virginia, five former congressmen and former White House adviser Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — are over 50. The average age in the Senate, in fact, is now 61. The average age in the House of Representatives is …

Comments and Instagrams from Main Street

Posted on 12/12/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Politics | Your LifeThe AARP Bulletin went to 27 states to get responses to questions on how people are doing in the economy and what they expect from Washington in the coming year. We got back great thought-provoking comments and beautiful Instagram portraits. You can find more at the official AARP Instragam account, AARP_OFFICIAL. Top row Photos by @brandonthibodeaux, @mattmillsphoto, @iancbates, @scottymacphoto Bottom row photos by @scottymacphoto, @clanger1, @michaelfriberg, @davidwalterbanks

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