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Health care – a few congressional updates
So, today the Senate Finance committee passed its version of a health care reform bill. Work will now shift to merging this bill with one passed earlier this year by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee. Three House committees have jointly approved a bill as well.
In the meantime, hearings have and will continue [...]
Small business contracting – Senate hearing
On Tuesday Sept. 22, 10:00 AM Eastern Time, the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship committee will be holding a “roundtable discussion” titled “Small Business Contracting: Ensuring Opportunities for America’s Small Businesses”. Won’t be in DC to attend the session (in room 458, Senate Russell Bldg.)?
While the committee does not appear to offer webcasts of its [...]
Health care reform bill introduced in the House
The Chairmen of the three House of Representatives committees with jurisdiction over health policy introduced a huge health care reform bill today – and that’s the easy part. Those committees, Education & Labor, Energy & Commerce, and Ways & Means, will begin marking up the legislation this week, and will undoubtedly go through many changes before, or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Senate Finance Committee releases policy options for financing health care reform
Healthcare reform is a major objective of the Obama administration . How much will it cost, and how will it be paid for? The Senate Finance Committee has released several documents recently. The third and final paper addresses policy options. It can be found here on the committee website. Public comments are due by May [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Social Security upside down in 2016 – hello is it finally time to do something?
So, according to the May 12th report of the Social Security Board of Trustees, the social security fund will be upside down in seven years, barring tough action. They didn’t say that, of course. They reported that the projected point at which social security tax revenues will fall below program costs will come in 2016.
They [...]
Business Opportunities at DHS – Newsletter
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security posts a “DHS Business Opportunities Newsletter” on its website – http://www.homeland.house.gov/ It lists upcoming events and upcoming opportunities, as well as “forecast opportunities”.
Speaking of upcoming events, on April 22, 2009 the federal Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) will host its 19th annual procurement [...]
Global Dimension of the U.S. Financial Crisis – Policy Implications
Earlier this month the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published, and soon updated, a report titled “The U.S. Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for U.S. Policy”. You can find a copy at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) site: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34742.pdf
The report identifies four phases of response:
intervention to “contain the contagion” and restore confidence
coping with [...]
Health Care Back on the Front Burner?
Senators Max Baucus (D, MT) and Ted Kennedy (D, MA) today both signaled strong support for another run at health care reform. Kennedy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, said he would “continue to lay the ground work for early action by Congress when President-elect Obama takes office.
In opening remarks at today’s Brookings [...]
Another Warning to Banks
Rep. Barney Frank, Chair of the House Financial Services Commitee, jumped into the fray, warning that institutions will violate the law if they use bailout money for anything except to increase lending, as intended by Congress and the administration.
The Financial Services Committee is expected to hold hearings in November about the bailout program. –nks
Need more [...]
Congress to Banks – Watch the Bonuses!
Henry Waxman, Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform questioned nine banks about their plans to provide bonuses to employees – bonuses that some stories (Bloomberg and Time magazine, both on October 27th) claim will be paid because the banks received billions in bailout dollars. The implication – without the bailout the [...]
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