WASHINGTON -- The White House has increased its estimate for next year's deficit to nearly $490 billion, a record figure that will saddle the next president with deepening budget problems in his first year in office, a report due out today shows. The projected deficit for...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Susan Feeney of the American Health Care Association, +1- 202-898-6333 FY 2009 Budget Blueprint 'Most Unreasonable, Most Unrealistic' of Entire White House Tenure WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reacting to the formal unveiling of the Bush Administration's FY 2009 budget plan, the American Health Care...
Attacking Elizabeth Drew for drowning us in irrelevant political details about an arcane process is far too easy. But that shouldn't stop anyone.In Showdown, Drew takes us through the internal maneuvering of the budget wonks on the Hill and in the White House during the 1994-'95 budget battle. This weighty...
Saying they would lower drug costs for seniors, House Democrats on Friday passed a bill that would require the government to negotiate with drug firms for medicines bought through the Medicare prescription-drug program. If enacted, the bill would mark the first major revision to the Medicare drug program passed in...
WASHINGTON -- Mark McClellan, who oversaw the biggest change in Medicare since its inception, said Tuesday he is resigning and will likely go work for a think tank. No replacement was immediately named, although White House press secretary Tony Snow said McClellan had made it known for some...
SHEER coincidence: A week ago Monday, the Social Security and Medicare trustees released their annual depressing report. On Tuesday, congressional negotiators handed President Bush a "victory" -- his assessment -- in agreeing to extend his capital gains and dividend tax cuts. Mr. Bush and his fellow tax-cuts-above-all proponents would like...
SHEER coincidence: A week ago Monday, the Social Security and Medicare trustees released their annual depressing report. On Tuesday, congressional negotiators handed President Bush a victory - - his assessment -- in agreeing to extend his capital gains and dividend tax cuts. Mr. Bush and his fellow tax-cuts-above-all proponents would...
WASHINGTON, March 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee (part 2 of 2): BOLTEN STONEWALLED QUESTIONS FROM REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ABOUT SPENDING ON KATRINA AND RX DRUGS KATRINA: Bolten Remained Secretive Towards Republican House Members' Questions on Katrina Spending. "As Congress and...
Fein, Leonard Forward 12-30-2005 As this year runs quite unlamentably out, it is well to fill in some of its blanks -- bits and pieces you may have missed. Once every 10 years or so, there takes place something called a...
Partisan polarization is like the cell phone of American politics--ubiquitous, occasionally annoying, and often the cause of public policy pileups when distracted lawmakers swerve into oncoming legislative traffic. Like the omnipresent technological device, partisanship is now one of the most dominant features of contemporary American...
President Bush has committed, in principle, to cutting spending to offset the massive new expenditures his administration is promising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but the White House has refused to endorse or recommend any specific cuts.The day after he gave his nationally televised speech at Jackson Square, vowing...
WASHINGTON -- President Bush added Medicare to the government's fix-it list Wednesday after new figures showed the first full decade of the program's prescription benefit will cost taxpayers $724 billion. "There's no question that there is an unfunded liability inherent in Medicare that Congress and the administration is...
Homeland Security: No sooner had New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik accepted Bush's nomination as Homeland security secretary than he abruptly withdrew his name from consideration. His public explanation revolved around his supposed discovery last week that he may have employed an illegal alien as a nanny.1) Kerik's public...
December 16, 2004 The President. Thank you all. Yes, Joshua. Thank you all for coming. Last night I had the honor of attending a reception for those who have participated in these series of panels, and I had a chance to thank them. I said something I think is...
WASHINGTON -- President Bush chose Environmental Protection Agency chief Michael Leavitt on Monday to be secretary of Health and Human Services, filling one of the last two openings in his second-term Cabinet. Bush praised Leavitt as a "fine executive" and "a man of great compassion." "He's an ideal...
The political campaign may be over, but the battles over prescription drugs are heating up. Last month the Food and Drug Administration drew new scrutiny after an FDA regulator told Congress that the agency was "virtually incapable of protecting America" from unsafe drugs like the arthritis medication Vioxx. But while...
WASHINGTON -- Any question about why Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson might not have been a good fit in President Bush's second-term Cabinet was answered in his moment of resignation. Thompson, 63, displayed the independent streak that has characterized his tenure when he issued a blunt warning...
The federal government is likely to soon fund treatments for obesity thanks to a new policy announced July 15 by Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson. The policy removes language from Medicare regulations that forbade the government from treating obesity as a disease.The decision was handed down by Mark...
THE WHITE House was embroiled in a new row over withholding evidence from Congress yesterday - this time over a hugely expensive reform of the Medicare health benefit programme, whose true cost the Bush administration is accused of suppressing. The dispute, which is being compared to this...
WASHINGTON -- Chief Medicare actuary Richard Foster said Wednesday he was told the White House was behind a controversial order to withhold cost estimates of a Medicare prescription drug bill from Congress. In his first congressional testimony since telling reporters two weeks ago that he was threatened with...
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