Dems Have Previously Argued: ‘Our Top Priority Should Be Working With Them To Create An Environment So Small Businesses Can Thrive And Create Jobs’ NFIB: ‘The EPA’s Actions Only Make It More Difficult For Small Business Owners To Grow Their Business And Create Jobs’ NFIB: “On Behalf Of The National Federation Of Independent Business (NFIB), [...]

Washington, DC – Today, at a joint hearing of the Ways and Means Health and Oversight Subcommittees to examine AARP and its affiliates, revenue, charitable giving, Boards of Directors, and lobbying expenditures, an expert on not-for-profit entities called for additional investigation of AARP. William “Bill” Josephson, who was appointed as the Assistant Attorney General-in-Charge of [...]

AARP is a profitable organization that is actively attempting to rip off Americans while claiming they are only helping seniors. Congress is finally looking into their practices. Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) When Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus founded AARP in 1958, Medicare did not exist.  Dr. Andrus understood that seniors needed access to health [...]

Organization Stands to Make One Billion Dollars in Insurance Royalties Over the Next Ten Years Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Members Wally Herger (R-CA), Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Charles Boustany (R-LA) today released “Behind the Veil: The AARP America Doesn’t Know,”  a new report exposing the conflict between AARP’s drive for profits, the best interests [...]

PRESIDENT OBAMA: ‘This Law Will Lower Premiums’ (President Obama, Remarks To ‘Families USA,’ 1/28/11) VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: ‘[People’s] Premiums Haven’t Gone Up’ (“$#!% Joe Biden Says,” GQ, 12/10) PREMIUM INCREASES OF ‘60% OR MORE’ REPORTED NEW HAMPSHIRE: “This Year, Groups Of More Than 20 Workers Have Been Experiencing Premium Increases Of Around 20 Percent, Insurance [...]

Senators “Reject Notion” that Payroll Tax Increases in Health Law Can Be Used to Fund Both Future Medicare Benefits, New Entitlement Spending WASHINGTON – In a letter released today, U.S. Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, urged the Medicare [...]

Starbucks CEO Says ‘Pressure On Small Businesses’ ‘Is Too Great,’ Other Job Creators Say ‘The Healthcare Law Costs Too Much And Further Jeopardizes The Economic Recovery’ HOWARD SCHULTZ, Starbucks CEO: “I Think As The Bill Is Currently Written And If It Was Going To Land In 2014 Under The Current Guidelines, The Pressure On Small [...]

‘Now Is Not The Time To Allow EPA To Impose What Could Prove To Be The Most Costly, Burdensome, And Expansive Set Of Job-Killing Regulations Ever Crafted’ U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: “As The U.S. Economy Struggles To Get Back On Track, Now Is Not The Time To Allow EPA To Impose What Could Prove To [...]

In another admission that the Democrats’ health care law is unworkable, the Obama Administration announced today rules that states must follow to ask for the Administration’s permission beginning in 2017, in order to “opt out” of the bulk of the health care law.  The announcement comes on the heels of news earlier this week that the [...]

HHS Ignores Key CBO Data, Selectively Quotes Report Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today made the following statement in response to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report on the impact of the Democrats’ health care law on premiums: “This report would be laughable if it wasn’t so [...]