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Archive for 2007
Seniors Head Laments House Committee On Natural Resources’ Approval Of H.R. 2337“On behalf of senior citizens I am proud to represent from every state in the country, I want to express my dismay over Wednesday’s vote by Congressman Nick Rahall’s (D-WV) committee that I believe will diminish many of the good features of the 2005 Energy Policy Act and will, in my opinion, lead to energy shortages and make life more difficult for seniors on fixed incomes,” said 60 Plus President, Jim Martin. June 13, 2007 | Read more… H.R. 2337, The Energy Policy Reform And Revitalization Act Of 2007Testimony Of James L. Martin, Before The House Committee On Natural Resources: “I’m Jim Martin, President of the 60 Plus Association, a 15-year-old senior citizen advocacy group. When energy supplies are tight, seniors pay disproportionately more because so many “gray hairs” are on fixed incomes. May 23, 2007 | Read more… Seniors Say No To Dorgan And Yes To CochranSenator Byron Dorgan’s (D-ND) amendment allowing cheap drug imports is a terrible idea and 60 Plus urges a NO vote. The Dorgan amendment poses a clear and present danger for senior citizens seeking access to less expensive and sorely needed drugs. Instead, it will open even wider the counterfeit floodgates to allow dangerously diluted medicines that Congressional hearings have already revealed many were not fit for human consumption. It’s a bad idea. May 7, 2007 | Read more… Kill The Death Tax. Don’t Wound It.Having started to work right here in the National Press Club more than 40 years ago, I’ve finally discovered a tax cut liberals and conservatives can rally around. What does TV star Oprah Winfrey and President Bush have in common? They both detest the death tax, Miss Winfrey having famously said on her TV show prior to starting her own foundation she found it “irritating to say the least” that after paying half her income in taxes while alive, Uncle Sam was waiting for as much as 55% of her after-tax assets upon her death. And President Bush has time and again promised to sign death tax repeal legislation, so here’s an issue liberals and conservatives are able to rally around. April 16, 2007 | Read more… Troop Security Not For Sale“The 60 Plus Association registers its strongest opposition to last week’s vote on the emergency supplemental spending bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Association President Jim Martin in a statement after the vote. March 26, 2007 | Read more… Taxes, Taxes And More TaxesThe 60 Plus Association heartily endorses the Republican Study Committee’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights. March 21, 2007 | Read more… Line Item Veto Needed“Congress: Give The President The Line Item Veto” in the January 3, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal, President Bush authored an op ed entitled, “What the Congress Can Do for America” in which he wrote, among other things, “It’s time Congress give the President a line item veto.” January 12, 2007 | Read more… |
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