That’s H.Con. Res. 37. We’ll update you when the text of the plan, and thus our cost estimate, is available, but a release from Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) has the following summary information about the Republican Study Committee (“RSC”) budget: While the Ryan budget leaves Social Security largely untouched, the RSC plan proposes to strengthen [...]
House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) spending blueprint will go to the House floor this week. (It has yet to be introduced, so we can’t point you to the page for it.) It’s the House counterpart to the president’s budget plan, which we discussed briefly in an earlier post. By April 15th, the House [...]
More than $7,400 per U.S. family is what the Senate Labor/HHS appropriations bill would spend. S. 3686 would spend money on the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and various programs in that vein. Some of the bigger chunks are Medicare and Social Security. Wanna see ‘em all? Scroll down… This [...]
Medicare is running out of money, and a 21% cut in payments to Medicare providers (sort of) went into effect June 1st. Doctors, hospitals, and old people have learned to rely on government payments, so they are pretty well organized to keep the flow of dollars going. Thus relief from this pay cut—known as the [...]
Well, not yet. But you could if S. 3094 were to pass.
The PBS NewsHour had an interesting feature Friday about the social consequences of long-term unemployment. No surprise—the results are mostly negative. “Psychologically, it’s roughly equivalent to the death of a spouse,” says journalist Don Peck, who has written an article on all this in March’s edition of The Atlantic. Young workers who get their start [...]
The release of the president’s budget last week kicked off the planning process for fiscal year 2011, which begins October 1st. We reviewed the schedule and the total cost of the budget—$39,000 per family—in a blog post last week. A lot of statistics come out with the budget, including an agency-by-agency run-down of the president’s [...]
I’ve done a couple posts here on the national debt – the inability of the national debt clock in New York City to handle the rollover to $10,000,000,000,000.00, and the freezing of the Treasury Department’s online national debt clock, now resolved. The other day, through the WashingtonWatch.com Twitter feed, I discovered a service that will [...]
[There were two candidates for the title of this post. I gave you both. Let me know which one you like better.] This week, Congress overrode the President’s veto of H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, making it Public Law number 110-275. The 100+ page law does lots of [...]