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2-3	Friday Alert: White House, Alliance for Retired Americans to Host Twitter Q&A on Senior Issues
2-3	AFSCME Legislative Report: Negotiations on Continuation of Unemployment Benefits Continue Slowly
1-27	Friday Alert: President Obama, Mitch Daniels Offer Different Views on Current State of the Union
1-27	AFSCME Legislative Report: President Obama’s State of the Union Address Calls for Boosting the Middle Class
1-20	Friday Alert: Wisconsin Governor Recall Effort Advances; Retirees Help Get a Million Signatures
1-13	Friday Alert: Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire; Florida Alliance Members Voice Disapproval
1-6-12	Friday Alert: Former Senator Santorum Loses Republican Caucuses in Iowa by Eight Votes
12-23	AFSCME Legislative Report: Congressional Stalemate: House GOP Scuttles Deal for Year-End Unemployment Insurance and Payroll Tax Cut Extensions
12-22	Friday Alert: Capitol Hill Tax Stalemate Hurts Medicare
12-16	AFSCME Legislative Report: FY 2012 Funding Done in Nick of Time
12-16	Friday Alert: Wyden-Ryan Medicare Plan Would Raise Premiums for Seniors
12-9	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate to Vote on Balanced Budget Amendment
12-9	Friday Alert: Payroll Tax Cut, “Doc Fix” Likely to be Rolled into One Catch-All Package
12-2	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Rejects Competing Payroll Tax Cut Proposals
12-2	Friday Alert: With Super Committee Deadline Passed, December Brings More Decisions
11-22	AFSCME Legislative Report: Super Committee – Debt Talks Collapse
11-18	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment
11-18	Friday Alert: Super Committee Negotiations Go Down to the Wire
11-11	AFSCME Legislative Report: Two Weeks Until the Super Committee’s Deadline
11-10	Friday Alert: Ohio Voters Reject the Politics of Scapegoating
11-4	AFSCME Legislative Report: President's Infrastructure Jobs Initiative Fails in the Senate
11-4	Friday Alert: Washington Post Misleads Seniors on Social Security
10-28	AFSCME Legislative Report: Dueling Debt Reduction Plans
10-28	Friday Alert: Proposed Super Committee Cuts Poised to Weaken State and Local Economies
10-21	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Republicans Reject Jobs Bill for Teachers and First Responders
10-21	Friday Alert: Coyle: Let Us Make Sure this 3.6% Raise is not the Last Social Security COLA Ever
10-14	AFSCME Legislative Report: American Jobs Act Blocked in Senate
10-14	Friday Alert: Social Security COLA Increase Finally Coming, but Offset by Medicare Premiums
10-7	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate to Vote on Jobs Bill
10-7	Friday Alert: Super Committee Could Cut Social Security COLAs with “Chained CPI” Change
9-30	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Passes Two Stop-Gap Bills to Prevent Government Shutdown
9-30	Friday Alert: Sickest Medicare Patients May Be Greatly Affected by the Super Committee
9-23	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Narrowly Passes FY 2012 Stop-Gap Funding Bill but Senate Leaders Reject it Out of Hand
9-23	Friday Alert: Alliance Praises the President's Economic Proposal
9-16	AFSCME Legislative Report: Obama Presses on Jobs Plan
9-16	Friday Alert: White House Appears Unlikely to Put Social Security Cuts Back on the Table
9-9	AFSCME Legislative Report: President Obama Calls for Job Creation
9/9	Friday Alert: On First Day “Super Committee” Meets, 500 Alliance Members Come to Capitol Hill
9/2	Friday Alert: As Super Committee Gets Set to Tackle the Nation's Debt...
8-26	Friday Alert: New Hampshire Alliance Takes on Mitt Romney
8-19	Friday Alert: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Runs into the New Hampshire Alliance on the Campaign Trail
8-12	Friday Alert: Social Security's 76th Anniversary is this Sunday
8-5	AFSCME Legislative Report: Debt Ceiling Goes Up; Budget Caps Clamp Down
8-5	Friday Alert: Social Security and Medicare Spared – For Now – In Debt Ceiling Deal
7-29	AFSCME Legislative Report: Government Default Looms With No Plan Yet
7-29	Friday Alert: Reid Plan Would Address Debt Ceiling without Affecting Medicare, Social Security
7-22	AFSCME Legislative Report: Default Crisis Continues Amid Intense Negotiations Between White House and Congress
7-22	Friday Alert: Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue to Cause Uncertainty
7-15	AFSCME Legislative Report: Balanced Budget Amendment Pulled from House Floor, Subbed with “Cut, Cap and Balance”- But Senate BBA Action Possible
7-15	Friday Alert: Cantor Obstructionism Imperils Finding a Debt Ceiling Solution
7-8	AFSCME Legislative Report: Budget Deal May Target Deep Cuts to Medicaid, as Well as Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
7-8	Friday Alert: Debt Ceiling Talks Focus on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Cuts
7-1	AFSCME Legislative Report: President Calls for Eliminating Tax Break; McConnell to Force Senate Vote on Balanced Budget Amendment
7-1	Friday Alert: Top Democrats Reject Coburn-Lieberman Plan to Cut Medicare
6-24	AFSCME Legislative Report: Cantor Pulls out of Budget Talks; House Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) Vote Scheduled
6-24	Friday Alert: Following AARP Story, GOP Has New Ammunition in Goal of Cutting Social Security
6-17	AFSCME Legislative Report: Balanced Budget Amendment Passes House Judiciary Committee; Senate Hearing Expected Soon
6-17	Friday Alert: Coyle Stresses Disagreement with AARP Regarding Social Security Benefit Cuts
6-10	AFSCME Legislative Report: Budget Talks Continue as Economy Struggles; Radical Budget Cutting Plans Proposed
6-10	Friday Alert: It’s Back… Social Security Privatization Bill Introduced on Capitol Hill
6-3	AFSCME Legislative Report: Budget Discussions Creep Forward as House Rejects Debt Ceiling Increase
6-3	Friday Alert: 2010 Alliance Voting Record, Compiling Key Congressional Votes, is Now Available
5-27	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Rejects Ryan Budget
5-27	Friday Alert: Republicans Gamble with Medicare, Lose Big
5-20	AFSCME Legislative Report: Budget Talks Continue With No Major Breakthroughs
5-20	Friday Alert: Nevada Activists Say Fund Medicare Fully, Rather Than Subsidizing Oil Companies
5-13	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Leaders Slash FY 2012 Spending Except for Defense
5-13	Friday Alert: Grassroots Pressure Influences the Medicare Debate
5-6	AFSCME Legislative Report: Federal Budget, Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction Efforts Moving Slowly Forward in Congress
5-6	Friday Alert: May is Older Americans Month
4-29	Friday Alert: In More Than 50 Cities, Activists Say, "Don't Make Us Work 'Til We Die!"
4-21	Friday Alert: Alliance Members Tell Congress, "Don't Make Us Work 'Til We Die!"
4-15	AFSCME Legislative Report: Congress Finalizes FY 2011 Funding; Cuts More than $38 Billion Compared to FY 2010
4-15	Friday Alert: Alliance Reacts to President Obama's Plan to Reduce the National Deficit
4-8	AFSCME Legislative Report: House 2012 Budget is a Road to Ruin – Action Needed
4-8	Friday Alert: Republican Budget Would Drastically Alter Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
4-1	AFSCME Legislative Report: Congress Faces Another Budget Stalemate as April 8 Looms
4-1	Friday Alert: House GOP Leader: Social Security “Cannot Exist” for Future Generations
3-25	Friday Alert: Alliance Commemorates One-Year Anniversary of Health Care Reform
3-18	AFSCME Legislative Report: Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders Addresses House Democratic Caucus
3-18	Friday Alert: What's next for Wisconsin's Public Workers
3-11	AFSCME Legislative Report: Senate Budget Votes Fail; Next Budget Fight Begins
3-11	Friday Alert: Wisconsin Lawmakers Take Away Collective Bargaining Rights of Public Workers
3-4	AFSCME Legislative Report: Stop-gap Funding Measure Averts Shutdown Until March 18; White House Leads Budget
3-4	Friday Alert: Public Workers in Wisconsin, Ohio Still Threatened; Retirees Continue to Protest
2-25	Friday Alert: Alliance Members Nationwide Support Their Brothers and Sisters in Wisconsin
2-18	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Considering Draconian Funding Bill; Threat of Government Shutdown
2-18	Friday Alert: President Obama's Budget Proposal Does Not Include Social Security Cuts
2-11	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Republicans Pledge to "Go Deep" on Funding Cuts
2-11	Friday Alert: Republicans in House Begin Attempt to Block Funding for Health Care Reform
2-4	AFSCME Legislative Report: Draconian Budget Cuts Released by House Republicans
2-4	Friday Alert: Senate Rejects Republican Attempt to Repeal the Health Care Law
1-28	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Starts to Vote on Remainder of This Year’s Federal Budget
1-28	Friday Alert: President’s State of the Union Address Avoids Call to Cut Social Security
1-21	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Votes to Repeal Affordable Care Act
1-21	Friday Alert: Alliance Members on Guard as State of the Union Address Approaches
1-14	AFSCME Legislative Report: House Leaders Cancel Legislative Work for the Week
1-14	Friday Alert: Shootings in Tucson are Personal for the Alliance
1-7	AFSCME Legislative Report: New 112th Congress Convenes
1-7	Friday Alert: As Republicans Try to Repeal Health Care Law, New Benefits for Seniors Kick in
2010 News and Update Archive


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